 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 頁
...Rome; content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the postof honour is a private station. Par. I hope my father...recommend a life to Portius, that he scorns himself. Calo. Farewell, my friends ! If there be any of you who dare not trust the victor's clemency, know... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 542 頁
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 354 頁
...rural life. There live retir'd, 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. FORTIUS. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns himself. CATO. Farewell,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 638 頁
...rural life. There live retir'd, 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. POHTIUS. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns himself. CATO. Farewell,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 532 頁
...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, my friends ! if there be any of you Who dare not trust the victor's clemency, Know, there... | |
 | 1811 - 418 頁
...jealousies, heartburnings, anxieties and cabals; and thinking that (as Addison happily expresses it) " when impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station," evaded the royal solicitations, and remained at Ferte Bernard, in Maine, cultivating the favour of... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 頁
...indeed, dazzle only the vulgar. A stroke of nature is, in my opinion, worth a hundred such thoughts as When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway. The post of honour is a private station. Cato is a fine dialogue on liberty, and the lovft of one's country ; but considered as a dramatic performance,... | |
 | Thomas Dibdin - 1815 - 496 頁
...rural life ; There live retir'd, 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. Par. I hope ray father does not recommend A life to Portius that be scorns himself. Cuto. Farewell, my friends!... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1817 - 710 頁
...lordships, although he did not despair, and although he held in contempt the doctrine of the poet that " When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station ;" (he by no means meant to apply this quotation to his majesty's ministers), he certainly feared that... | |
 | George Holden - 1819 - 538 頁
...themselves from the effects of wickedness armed with power. This exposition is proved by verse 28. " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." Cato, quoted by Parkhurst. I will not attempt to enumerate the different senses attributed to von by... | |
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. 
