| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 280 pages
...description of honour in the part of young Juba: Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The nohle mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imit itcs her actions where she is not. It ought not to be sported with. CATO. In the second place,... | |
| Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...with the description of honour in the part of young Julia. Honour's sacred tie, the law of kings, '• The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue" where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not. It ought not to be sported with. , CATO. 7. In the second... | |
| British drama - 1824 - 834 pages
...lov'st me ; but indeed Thy zeal for Juba carried thee too far. Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection. That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets And imitates her*actions where she is not: [her, It ought not to be sported with. Sy[th* Believe me,... | |
| George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1826 - 512 pages
...me: but thy zeal To serve thy master, carried thee too far. Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions, where she is not : It ought not to be sported with. Sypk. (c.) Believe me,... | |
| 1826 - 316 pages
...with the description of honour in the part of young Juba: Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not, • It ought not to be sported with. CATO. In the second... | |
| Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...INSCRIBED, BY HIS ROYAL HIGIINESS'S MOST OBEDIENT AND MOST HUMBLE SERVANTS, ANECDOTES OF HONOUR. "TuE noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens Virtue where it meets her. And imitates her actions where she is not." AODISON. ROAD TO HONOUR. AMONG the ancient Greeks and Romans,... | |
| Owen Williams - English drama - 1828 - 930 pages
...lov'st me; but indeed Thy zeal for Juba carried thee too far. Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection. That aids and strengthens virtue where it her. Syi>h. Believe me, prince, you make old Syrili.. -, weep To bear you talk — bul 'tis witii tears... | |
| Joseph Hamilton (of Dublin.) - Dueling - 1829 - 304 pages
...judge the action, I must know the meansni or with Addison, " Honor's a sacred tie, the law of Kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue, where it meets her, And imitates her actions, where she is not ; It ought not to be sported wilh." JOSEPH HAMILTON. Annadale... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 878 pages
...true, But that which loosened yours, my love to you. Dryden. Honour's a sacred tye, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her. And imitates her actions where she is not , It ought not to be sported with. Addison. Lend me aid,... | |
| 1829 - 838 pages
...observance of it — and thus acquires the sentiment of honour. A sentiment somewhere said to be, " the noble mind's distinguishing perfection — that aids and strengthens virtue where it is — and imitates its actions where it is not." But the degree of honesty, adopted or professed,... | |
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