 | 1822 - 682 pages
...despair, may we not all profit by the vehement exhortations of Cicero to Atticus : " If you are asleep, awake ; if you are standing, move ; if you are moving, run; if you are running, fly." All these considerations warn us — the grave-stones of almost every former republic warn us — that... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - United States - 1837 - 72 pages
...despair, may we not all profit by the vehement exhortations of Cicero to Atticus : " If you are asleep, awake ; if you are standing, move ; if you are moving, run ; if you are running, fly." All these considerations warn us — the grave-stones of almost every former republic warn us — that... | |
 | Joseph Coe - Presidents - 1841 - 416 pages
...despair, may we not all profit by the vehement exhortations of Cicero to Atticus : " If you are asleep, awake ; if you are standing, move ; if you are moving, run ; if you are running, fly." All these considerations warn us — the grave-stones of almost every former republic warn us — that... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...either degeneracy or disgrace. by the vehement exhortations of Cicero to Atticus : "If you are asleep, awake; if you are standing, move ; if you are moving, run ; if you are running, fly ? " LESSON CXCVHI. POLITICAL CORRUPTION. GEO. M'DUFFIE. 10 Of all the forms in which it can present... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 450 pages
...despair, may we not all profit by the vehement exhortations of Cicero to Atticus : "If you are asleep, awake; if you are standing, move; if you are moving, run ; if you are running, fly." All these considerations warn us, — the grave -stones of almost every former republic warn us, —... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - America - 1855 - 436 pages
...time. May we not all profit by the vehement exhortation of Cicero to Atticus : ' If you are asleep, awake ; if you are standing-, move ; if you are moving, run ; if you are running, fly 1' " All these considerations warn us — the gravestones of almost every former republic warn us —... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...despair, may we not all profit by the vehement exhortations of Cicero to Atticus? " If you are asleep, awake ; if you are standing, move ; if you are moving, run ; if you are running, fly !" rectitude, as well as of intelligence, is quite as indispensable to communities, in their public... | |
 | Patriotism - 1892 - 436 pages
...despair, may we not all profit by the vehement exhortations of Cicero to Atticus ?—" If you are asleep, awake ; if you are standing, move; if you are moving, run; if you are running, fly." All these considerations warn us, the gravestones of almost every former republic warn us, that a high... | |
 | Howard Cecil Perkins - Secession - 1942 - 686 pages
...anything remains to be done. To quote words never used for a more urgent occasion, if you are asleep, awake! If you are standing, move! If you are moving, run! If you are running, fly to the rescuel 371. VIRGINIA, SLAVERY, AND DISUNION (Washington (DC) National Republican, January 21,... | |
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All these considerations warn us — the grave-stones of almost every former republic warn us — that a high standard of moral rectitude, as well as of intelligence, is quite as indispensable to communities in their public doings as to individuals, if... 