Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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. "
The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L. L. D.: Late One of the ... - Page 469
by James Wilson - 1804
Full view - About this book

The Calcutta Review, Volume 22

India - 1854 - 532 pages
...truth for its own sake, and he held Honour to be " above life." With him it was, in .very truth, " The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her." His occasionally strong and bitter denunciations of the political and military authorities who misdirected...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 6

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pages
...lov'st me, but indeed Thy zeal for Juba carried thee too far. a 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. SYPHAX. By heavens I'm...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 1

Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...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 her, And imitates her actions, where she is not : It ought not to be sported with. SYPHAX. By heavens I'm...
Full view - About this book

Memoirs and Corresponence of Major-General Sir William Nott ..., Volume 2

Sir William Nott - Afghan Wars - 1854 - 510 pages
...loved Truth tor its own sake, and he held Honour to be " above life." With him it was, in very truth, " The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her." His occasionally strong and bitter denunciations of the political and military authorities who misdirected...
Full view - About this book

The Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 5

Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1855 - 608 pages
...because it is so mean, and base, and vile ? These are the ingredients of true honour. " Honour 'aa sacred tie The noble mind's distinguishing perfection,...That aids and strengthens Virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions." That some of the advocates of this system may possess in a degree these...
Full view - About this book

.. The Tatler. The Guardian

Joseph Addison - 1856 - 536 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 place,...
Full view - About this book

The Young Officer's Companion; Or Essays on Military Duties and Qualities ...

William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald-de-Ros De Ros (23d baron) - Military art and science - 1857 - 458 pages
...he makes the most injurious and dangerous use of these ' 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." ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO. qualities. He is as much the...
Full view - About this book

The British Drama: A Collection of the Most Esteemed Tragedies ..., Volume 2

English drama - 1859 - 836 pages
...lov'et me; b* indeed Thy zeal for Jut» carried thee too far. Honour 'sa sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it и** her, And imitates her actions where she is not: It ought not to be sported with. Syph. Believe...
Full view - About this book

Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...Addison, in his Cato, says of honour : — " ' Honour's a sacred tie ; the law of kings ; The noMe e is politically right." MAYO. " I am of opinion, Sir, that every man is entitled to li And imitates her actions where she is not." When he took up his large <iak stick, he said, " My lord,...
Full view - About this book

Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 34

James Boswell - 1860 - 948 pages
...Addison, in his Cato, says of honour : — " ' Honour's a sacred tic ; the law of kinjjs ; The uolile mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens Virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not." When he took up his large oak stick, he said, " My lord,...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF