 | 1784 - 1048 pages
...itfelf had run before itj from virtuous indultry to wealth; from wealth to luxury; from luxury to an impatience of discipline and corruption of morals: till, by a total degeneracy and -lofs of virtue, being grown ripe for deftruiVion, it falls a prey at hilt to fome hardy oppreilbr,... | |
 | 1784 - 552 pages
...itfelf had run before it; from virtuous induftry to wealth; from wealth TO luxury; from luxury to an impatience of discipline and corruption of morals: till, by a total degeneracy and lofs of virtue, being grown ripe for deffniclion, it falls a prey at Jail to fomc hardy oppreiTor,... | |
 | Conyers Middleton - 1801 - 478 pages
...itself had run before it ; from virtuous industry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury ; from luxury to an impatience of discipline and corruption of morals...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
...itself had run before it; from virtuous industry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury; from luxury to an impatience of discipline and corruption of morals...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 - 746 pages
...industry to wealth ; from " wealth to luxury ; from luxury to " impatience of discipline, and cor" ruption of morals; till by a total " degeneracy, and loss...liberty losing every " thing that is valuable, sinks gra" dually again into its original barba" rism." Such an oppressor, my dear * See Dr. Middleton's... | |
 | Jane West - 1806 - 492 pages
...industry to wealth ; from " wealth to luxury ; from luxury to " impatience of discipline, and cor" ruption of morals ; till by a total " degeneracy, and loss...liberty losing every " thing that is valuable, sinks gra" dually again into its original barba" rism." Such an oppressor, my dear * S<* Dr. Middleton's... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1807 - 604 pages
...an eloquent writer, ( Dr. Middleton,) who, having observed that this country was flourishing in-all the arts of civil life, remarks, that ' perhaps it...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
...a free nation runs, is from virtuous industry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury ; from luxury to an impatience of discipline and corruption of morals...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
...itself had run before it, from virtuous industry to wealth; from wealth to luxury; from luxury to an impatience of discipline, and corruption of morals:...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... | |
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same course which Rome itself had run before it: from virtuous 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,... 
