 Eternal gave it, and that end is virtue. When inconsistent with a greater good, Reason commands to cast the less away ; Thus life, with loss of wealth is well preserv'd, And virtue cheaply sav'd with loss of life.  Brighton in an uproar - Page 209by Henrietta Maria Moriarty - 1811Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English drama - 1797 - 436 pages
...its value from its use alone ; Not for itself but for a nobler end Th' Eternal gave it, and that end is virtue. 'When inconsistent with a greater good,...preserv'd, And virtue cheaply sav'd with loss of life. Irene. If built on settled thought, this constancy Not idly flutters on a boastful tongue, Why, when... | |
 | English drama - 1797 - 448 pages
...its value from its use alone ; Not for itself but for a nobler end Th' Eternal gave it, and that end is virtue. When inconsistent with a greater good,...preserv'd, And virtue cheaply sav'd with loss of life. Irene. If built on settled thought, this constancy Not idly flutters on a boastful tongue, Why> when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...Eternal gave it, and that end is virtue !• -,. , -When inconsistent with a greater good, Ileason commands to cast the less away : Thus life with loss...preserv-d^ And virtue cheaply sav'd with loss of life. Irene, p. 41. The death of great men is not always proper* tioned to their lives. Hannibal, says. Juvenal,... | |
 | English drama - 1804 - 486 pages
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 | British drama - 1804 - 954 pages
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 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...value from its use alone j JJIot for itself but for a nobler end Th' Eternal gave it; and that end is virtue. When inconsistent with a greater good, Reason commands to cast the less away ; Tims life, with loss of wealth, is well preserv'd, And virtue cheaply sav'd with loss of life. A... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...value from its use alone ; Not for itself, but for a nobler end, Th' Eternal gave it, and that end is virtue. When inconsistent with a greater good,...preserv'd> And virtue cheaply sav'd with loss of life. Irene. If, built on settled thought, this constancy Not idly flutters on a boastful tongue, Why, when... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...value from its use alone ; Not for itself, but for a nobler end, ili' Eternal gave it, and that end is virtue. When inconsistent with a greater good,...less away ', Thus life, with loss of wealth, is well presejVd, And virtue cheaply sav'd with loss of life. In act the first, scene the second, is a passage... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...value from its use alone ; Not for itself, but for a nobler end, Th' Eternal gave it, and that end is virtue. When inconsistent with a greater good,...less away ; Thus life, with loss of wealth, is well prcserv'd, And virtue cheaply sav'd with loss of life. In act the first, scene the second, is a passage... | |
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