 If they retire from the world, their splendour accompanies them, and enlightens even the obscurity of their retreat. If they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance, and their...  The Spirit of Despotism ... - Page 232by Vicesimus Knox - 1802 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1809 - 500 pages
...retreat. If they take a part in publick life, the effect is never indiffevent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance, and their course through...avert even the most distant evil, and to maintain or to procure peace, plenty, and, the greatest of human blessings, liberty. From the observation, that... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 504 pages
...retreat. If they take a part in publick life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance, and their course through...avert even the most distant evil, and to maintain or to procure peace, plenty, and, the greatest of human blessings, liberty. From the observation, that... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Theology - 1780 - 494 pages
...retreat. If they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance ; and their course through...avert even the most distant evil, and to maintain or to procure peace, plenty, and the greatest of human blessings, LIBERTY." Spirit of Patriotism (1794),... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 526 pages
...retreat. If they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance ; and their course through...the greatest of human blessings, liberty." , Such men, when they take the latter course, and become the guardian angels of the country they inhabit,... | |
 | Xenophon - Greece - 1832 - 776 pages
...divine vengeance, and their course through the world a marked by desolation and oppression, by povertr and servitude ; or, they are the guardian angels of...avert even the most distant evil, and to maintain or to procure peace, plenty, and the greatest of human blessings, LIBERTY." P. 8. I have availed myself... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 522 pages
...retreat. If they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance, and their course through...avert even the most distant evil, and to maintain or to procure peace, plenty, and, the greatest of human blessings, liberty. From the observation, that... | |
 | Xenophon - Greece - 1845 - 782 pages
...invested with royalty, or placed in other elevated situations, " They either appear," says he, " like ministers of divine vengeance, and their course through...poverty and servitude ; or, they are the guardian angeU of the country they inhabit ; busy to avert eren the most distant evil, and to maintain or >.... | |
 | John Adams - United States - 1851 - 666 pages
...take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear the instruments 35* of Divine vengeance, and their course through the...are the guardian angels of the country they inhabit, studious to avert the most distant evil, and to procure peace, plenty, and the greatest of human blessings,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 pages
...they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear the instruments of Divine vengeance, and their course through the...are the guardian angels of the country they inhabit, studious to avert the most distant evil, and to procure peace and plenty, and the greatest of human... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 pages
...they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear the instruments of Divine vengeance, and their course through the...are the guardian angels of the country they inhabit, studious to avert the most distant evil, and to procure peace and plenty, and the greatest of human... | |
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