 | William Coxe - Great Britain - 1800 - 530 pages
...virtue would be taken away, fince there would be no arriving at honour, but through the windingfheet of an old decrepit lord, or the grave of an extinct...who made it their .pride to hold out to the world illuftrious examples of merited elevation, " Pater e honoris fcirent ut cunEli viam. " It is very far... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1811 - 678 pages
...of the most powerful incentives to virtue would be taken away, since there would be no arriving nt honour, but through the winding-sheet of an old decrepit...family; a policy very different from that glorious aud enlightened nation, who made it the. i1 pride to hold out to the world illustrious examples of... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 562 pages
...passed into a law, one of the most powerful incentives to virtue would be taken away, since there would be no arriving at honour but through the windingsheet...decrepit lord, or the grave of an extinct noble family." He then proceeded to expose in a masterly manner the motives of the proposers, and the ill effects... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1840 - 446 pages
...would be taken away, since there would be no arriving at honour, but through the winding. sheet of some old decrepit lord, or the grave of an extinct noble...enlightened nation, who made it their pride to hold out to ihe world illustrious examples of merited elevation, Fatere honoris scirent ut cuncti viam." 1720.... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1840 - 576 pages
...the most powerful incentives to virtue would be taken away, since there would be no arriving at honor but through the winding-sheet of an old decrepit lord, or the grave of an extinct noble family." He then proceeded to expose in a masterly manner the motives of the proposers, and the ill effects... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1846 - 516 pages
...passed into a law, one of the most powerful incentives to virtue would be taken away, since there would be no arriving at honour, but through the windingsheet...decrepit lord, or the grave of an extinct noble family." "When," he continued, " great alterations in the constitution are to be made, the experiment should... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 528 pages
...passed into a law, one of the most powerful incentives to virtue would be taken away, since there would be no arriving at honour but through the winding-sheet...decrepit lord or the grave of an extinct noble family." After more rhetoric and some Latin quotations, Walpole continued, more in his own natural style :—"... | |
 | William Douglas Hamilton - 1855 - 164 pages
...passed into a law, one of the most powerful incentives to virtue would be taken away ; since there would be no arriving at honour but through the winding-sheet...decrepit lord, or the grave of an extinct noble family." * The whigs declared themselves convinced, and by a majority of 269 to 177, rejected the measure without... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1860 - 300 pages
...passed into a law, one of the most powerful incentives to virtue would be taken away, since there would be no arriving at honour but through the winding-sheet...extinct noble family ; a policy very different from the policy of that glorious andenlightened nation, who made it their pride to hold out to the world... | |
 | John Edwards (Teacher.) - Great Britain - 1860 - 304 pages
...passed into a law, one of the most powerful incentives to virtue will be taken away ; since there would be no arriving at honour but through the winding-sheet...decrepit lord, or the grave of an extinct noble family," Such arguments convinced the House of Commons, and the measure was rejected by a large majority. In... | |
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Fame was placed behind the temple of Virtue, to denote that there was no coming to the temple of Fame but through that of Virtue. But if this bill is passed into a law, one of the most powerful incentives to virtue would be taken away, since there would... 
