 If they retire from the world, their splendour accompanies them, and enlightens even the obscurity of their retreat. If they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance, and their...  The Spirit of Despotism ... - Sivu 232tekijä(t) Vicesimus Knox - 1802 - 384 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 500 sivua
...retreat. If they take a part in publick life, the effect is never indiffevent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance, and their course through...avert even the most distant evil, and to maintain or to procure peace, plenty, and, the greatest of human blessings, liberty. From the observation, that... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 504 sivua
...retreat. If they take a part in publick life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance, and their course through...avert even the most distant evil, and to maintain or to procure peace, plenty, and, the greatest of human blessings, liberty. From the observation, that... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1780 - 494 sivua
...retreat. If they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance ; and their course through...avert even the most distant evil, and to maintain or to procure peace, plenty, and the greatest of human blessings, LIBERTY." Spirit of Patriotism (1794),... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 526 sivua
...retreat. If they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance ; and their course through...the greatest of human blessings, liberty." , Such men, when they take the latter course, and become the guardian angels of the country they inhabit,... | |
 | Xenophon - 1832 - 776 sivua
...divine vengeance, and their course through the world a marked by desolation and oppression, by povertr and servitude ; or, they are the guardian angels of...avert even the most distant evil, and to maintain or to procure peace, plenty, and the greatest of human blessings, LIBERTY." P. 8. I have availed myself... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 522 sivua
...retreat. If they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance, and their course through...avert even the most distant evil, and to maintain or to procure peace, plenty, and, the greatest of human blessings, liberty. From the observation, that... | |
 | Xenophon - 1845 - 782 sivua
...invested with royalty, or placed in other elevated situations, " They either appear," says he, " like ministers of divine vengeance, and their course through...poverty and servitude ; or, they are the guardian angeU of the country they inhabit ; busy to avert eren the most distant evil, and to maintain or >.... | |
 | John Adams - 1851 - 666 sivua
...take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear the instruments 35* of Divine vengeance, and their course through the...are the guardian angels of the country they inhabit, studious to avert the most distant evil, and to procure peace, plenty, and the greatest of human blessings,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 sivua
...they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear the instruments of Divine vengeance, and their course through the...are the guardian angels of the country they inhabit, studious to avert the most distant evil, and to procure peace and plenty, and the greatest of human... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 sivua
...they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear the instruments of Divine vengeance, and their course through the...are the guardian angels of the country they inhabit, studious to avert the most distant evil, and to procure peace and plenty, and the greatest of human... | |
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