| Henry Fielding - 1988 - 466 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,... | |
| David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 pages
...succeeded by a declension 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,... | |
| Gregory Claeys - 1994 - 356 pages
...wealth; from wealth to luxury; from luxury to an impatience of discipline, and corruption of manners: till by a 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,... | |
| Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - 1999 - 1020 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 everything else that... | |
| Patrick Dillon - 2003 - 381 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; till, by a total degeneracy and loss of virtue ... it falls a prey ... to some hardy oppressor, and, with the loss of liberty . . . sinks gradually... | |
| Matthew Iley, J. M. Millingen - 1825 - 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 that is valuable,... | |
| William Sweet, Mark Spencer - 2003 - 286 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... | |
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