| 1828 - 598 páginas
...labours of these monarch s were overpaid by the immense reward that inseparably waited on their success ; by the honest pride of virtue, and by the exquisite...general happiness of which they were the authors.' — Idem, vol. ip 126. The 'superstition barbare de la Palestine' (as a bolder infidel phrases it)... | |
| George Wilson Bridges - 1828 - 530 páginas
...that excellent Governor were at length repaid by the immense reward which waited on their success — by the honest pride of virtue, and by the exquisite delight of beholding the increasing prosperity, of which he was the principal author. A just, but melancholy, reflexion embittered,... | |
| Philip Allwood - 1829 - 538 páginas
...liberty, " and were pleased with considering themselves " as the accountable ministers of the laws." " pride of virtue, and by the exquisite delight of "...general happiness of which they " were the authors "." And yet, in the short but mild and pacific reign of Nerva, though he rescinded the cruel edicts... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 páginas
...foregoing passage refers) were overpaid by the immense reward that inseparably waited on their success, by the honest pride of virtue, and by the exquisite...general happiness, of which they were the authors," immediately subjoins, — " A just but melancholy reflection embittered the noblest of human enjoyments.... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 páginas
...that inseparably waited on their success, by the honest pride of * [Decline and Fall, &c., Chap, iii.] virtue, and by the exquisite delight of beholding...general happiness, of which they were the authors," immediately subjoins, — " A just but melancholy reflection embittered the noblest of human enjoyments.... | |
| Philip Smith - 1864 - 1096 páginas
...that inseparably waited on their success ; the honest pride AD 98.] ACCESSION OF NERVA. 483 of virtue; the exquisite delight of beholding the general happiness of which they were the authors. They must often have recollected the instability of a happiness which depended on the character of... | |
| James H. Braund - 1870 - 524 páginas
...labours of these monarchs were overpaid by the immense rewards that inseparably waited on their success, by the honest pride of virtue and by the exquisite...general happiness of which they were the authors." Precisely as in the vision that the Emperors would be the agents of the happy state denoted. Thus we... | |
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