 | Mallet du Pan (M., Jacques) - 1852 - Страниц: 510
...others, whose integrity equalled their sagacity, remembered the fine lines of Addison : VOL. i. o "' When impious men bear sway The post of honour is a private station.' "* After this retirement of two of its leaders, the rest of the party merged into the right side, although... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - Страниц: 332
...stars, and thinks it luxury." " I think the Romans call it Stoicism." " My voice is still for war." " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway. The post of honour is a private station." Not to mention — " The woman who deliberates is lost." And the eternal — " Plato, thou reasonest... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - Страниц: 600
...rural life. There live retired, pray for the peace of Rome : Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. PORTIUS. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns himself. CATO. Farewel,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - Страниц: 772
...IMPIETY. To keep that oath were more impiety, Than Jephtha's, when he sacrificed his daughter. Khakspere. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Addison. The Eternal reigns in all through boundless space; Unwise! who first designed him form or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - Страниц: 456
...side.' Jb. In 1737, when the Prince of Wales (post, POPE, 217) saw Cato acted, ' where Cato says : — " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station " [Act iv. sc. 4], there was a loud huzza, with a great clap, in which clap the Prince himself joined... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - Страниц: 428
...stars, and thinks it luxury." " I think the Romans call it Stoicism." " My voice is still for war." " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." Not to mention — "The woman who deliberates is lost." And the eternal — " Plato, thou reasonest... | |
 | 1906 - Страниц: 810
...Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage. SAMUEL JOHNSON, Vanity of Human Wishes, line 308 Vice. — • When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. ADDISON, Calo, iv, 4 Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. BURKE, On the French... | |
 | Samuel Adams - 1906 - Страниц: 482
...sincerity, and perhaps he may hereafter receive the reward of a baronet for his fidelity and courage. ' When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is the private station.' ARTICLE SIGNED " CANDIDUS. [Boston Gazette, August 5, 1771.] Messieurs EDES &... | |
 | Andrew McFarland Davis - 1911 - Страниц: 602
...VIRTUE ! O MY COUNTRY ! " A Thousand secret Terrors rise in my Soul: " How shall I save my Friends — " When Vice prevails, and Impious Men bear Sway, " The Post of Honour is a private Station. O my Countrymen ! wont you believe when you Feel\ [11] What fine Stories were told you about Liberty,... | |
 | Stanley Victor Makower - 1912 - Страниц: 328
...an open volume of Addison towards the lady with the following lines marked in pencil : — " Where vice prevails and impious men bear sway The post of honour is a private station." " No doubt," said he, when he had allowed the lady time to glance at the couplet, " the world will... | |
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When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. 
