 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides - 1924 - 562 pages
...when a king shall again be entertained in Scotland.' ' 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." When he took up his large oak stick, he said, ' My lord,... | |
 | Peter McNamara - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...thousand deaths / Than wound my honour." As he describes it: 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. This sense of honor makes him independent of the opinions... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 pages
...feelings. But this too is part of the code, as Juba points out: 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.1' In an age like ours,... | |
 | Medicine - 1912 - 992 pages
...Addison's Cato, so well lived up to by the subject of this sketch : 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. WL PIRT, MD Dr. WL Pirt, of Carman, Manitoba, was found... | |
 | John Hamilton Moore - Conduct of life - 1806 - 402 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 site is not. It ought not to be sported with. — Cato. 7. In the second... | |
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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. 
