 | Conyers Middleton - 1801 - 478 pages
...industry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury ; from luxury to an impatience of discipline and corruption of morals ; till, by a total degeneracy and loss of...virtue, being grown ripe for destruction, it falls at last a prey to some hardy oppressor, and, with the loss of liberty, losing every thing else that... | |
 | Algernon Sidney - 1805 - 522 pages
...industry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury; from luxury to an impatience of discipline and corruption of morals ; till by a total degeneracy and loss of...being grown ripe for destruction, it falls a prey at last to some hardy oppressor, and with the loss of liberty, losing every thing else that is valuable,... | |
 | Jane West - 1806 - 492 pages
...that preeminence which permits you to reprove them. These are the effects of flourishing 3 trade 202 trade and prosperous manufacture :. are they symptoms...original barba" rism." Such an oppressor, my dear * S<* Dr. Middleton's Life of Cicero. Miss M , seems near at hand. He wants neither ambition, hatred,... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...from wealth to luxury; from luxury to an '•impatience of discipline and corruption of morals; .^dU, by a total degeneracy and loss of virtue, being ' -grown ripe for destruction, it falls a prey at last ' to- some hardy oppressor, andj with the. loss of li' berty, losing every thing else that... | |
 | Jane West - 1806 - 490 pages
...by a tfttal " degeneracy, and Icfos of virtue; being " grown ripe for destruction, it falfe " a pify to some hardy oppressor; " And, with loss of liberty losing " every thing that is Valuable, sinks " gradually again into its original " barbarism." Sach ah oppressor, iny dear Miss M—--*•', seems... | |
 | 1807 - 538 pages
...industry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury ; from luxury to impatience of discipline, and corruption of morals ; till, by a total degeneracy, and loss...liberty losing every thing that is valuable, sinks gradually again into its original barbarism.' Such an oppressor seems near at hand." We trust there... | |
 | 1807 - 604 pages
...industry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury ; from luxury to impatience of discipline, and corruption of morals ; till, by a total degeneracy, and loss of virtue, being grown ripe for destruction, it falb a prey to some hardy oppressor ; and, with loss of liberty losing every thing that is valuable,... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1818 - 432 pages
...industry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury ; from luxury to an impatience of discipline and corruption of morals ; till by a total degeneracy and loss of...virtue, being grown ripe for destruction, it falls at last a prey to some handy oppressor, and with the loss of liberty, loses every thing else that is... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...industry to wealth; from wealth to luxury; from luxury to an impatience of discipline, and corruption of morals: till by a total degeneracy and loss of virtue, being grown ripe for destruction, it fall a prey at last to some hardy oppressor, and, with the loss of liberty, losing every thing that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pages
...industry to wealth; from wealth to luxury; from luxury to an impatience of discipline and corruption of morals; till, by a total degeneracy and loss of...being grown ripe for destruction, it falls a prey at last to some hardy oppressor, and, with the loss of liberty losing every thing else that is valuable,... | |
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... happy seat of liberty, plenty, and letters; flourishing in all the arts and refinements of civil life ; yet running, perhaps, the same course which Rome itself had run before it; from virtuous industry to wealth; from wealth to luxury; from luxury... 
