 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 332 pages
...from wealth to luxury; from luxury to an impatience of discipline, and corruption of morals : tillj by a total degeneracy and loss of virtue, being grown ripe for destruct,on, it fall a prey at last to some hardy oppressor, and, with the loss of liberty, losing... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 800 pages
...itself had run before it, from virtuous industry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury; from luxury to an PO: A VENETIAN STORY. 1817. ' " :ar strange suits: fall at prey at last to some hardy oppressor, and, with the loss of liberty, losing everything that... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 448 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,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 442 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,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1891 - 776 pages
..."virtuous industry," says the historian, "it passed 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 fell at last under the hand of the oppressor ; and, with the loss of liberty, losing everything that... | |
 | Charles Frederick Hardy - 1901 - 426 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 everything else that is valuable,... | |
 | Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - 1902 - 318 pages
...from luxury to an impatience of discipline and corruption of morals; till, by a LEGAL WRITINGS — 2 total degeneracy and loss of virtue, 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,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1903 - 514 pages
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 584 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 everything that... | |
 | Malcolm Miles Kelsall - 1987 - 234 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,... 
