 | Harold Workman Williams - American wit and humor - 1916 - 516 pages
...Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. — Addison. Where liberty dwells, there is my country. — Benjamin Franklin. LIBRARIANS... | |
 | Bonamy Dobrée - Blenheim Palace (Blenheim, Oxfordshire). - 1925 - 400 pages
...approval that delayed the speaking of his words. Thunders of rapturous applause greeted such lines as A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity of bondage ; but the culminating moment of the play was when Bolingbroke, calling to Booth, leaned out of his... | |
 | Democracy - 1941 - 120 pages
...cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.—Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1868). A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. —Joseph Addixon (1713). Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1942 - 678 pages
...cause, and who wenr upon breasts its stars of the legion of honor. — Edwin, Hubbell Chapin (1868). A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. — Joseph Addison (1713). ;rty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1942 - 694 pages
...and who wear upon their breasts Its stars of the legion of honor. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1888). A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. — Joseph Addixon (1713). Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves... | |
 | Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - Literary Collections - 1995 - 508 pages
...after Caesar had forced them to yield, then they might sue for Chains. And let me perish, but in Gate's Judgment, A Day, an Hour of virtuous Liberty, Is worth a whole Eternity in Bondage. (3) After Orders were given for the executing the base Villains who conspired Cato's Death,... | |
 | Charles H. H. Scobie, George A. Rawlyk - Religion - 1997 - 296 pages
...less civic virtue than Cato Uticensis, a statesman of the late Roman Republic: "Shall a heathen say/ - in Cato's judgment, / A day, an hour of virtuous liberty / Is worth a whole eternity of bondage'?" 47 The last four pages of the Letter are taken up with MacGregor 's restatement and rebuttal of the... | |
 | Peter McNamara - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...full length, and spin it to the last, So shall we gain still one day's liberty; And let me perish, but in Cato's judgment, A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.10 Cato's love of virtuous freedom makes all other cares pale by comparison. It enables... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - Electronic books - 2007 - 344 pages
...liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry "Lean liberty is better than fat slavery." — Thomas Fuller "A day, an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity of bondage." — Joseph Addison "I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty." — Phaedrus "If you... | |
 | Bruce H. Mann - Business & Economics - 2002 - 372 pages
...auspicious day," and a final one to "LIBERTY, Thou Goddess heavenly bright," with the sentiment that "A day, an hour of virtuous Liberty /Is worth a whole eternity in bondage." The imagined procession and the toasts were not Pintard's private musings. He gave them... | |
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. 
