 | Thomas Sheridan - 1756 - 434 pages
...rights of ' others; improvers of learning and ufeful arts, '* enemies to luxury, tender of other men's lives, ' and prodigal of their own ; inferior in nothing...they degenerated, grew ' fervile flatterers of men in power, adopted epi' curean notions, became venal, corrupt, injuri* ous ; which drew upon them the hatred... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...rights of others ; improvers of learning and useful arts, enemies to luxury, tender of other men's lives, and prodigal of their own ; inferior in nothing to the old Greeks or Romans, and superior to each of those people in the perfections of the other. Such were our ancestors during their... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...rights of others ; improvers of learning and useful arts, enemies to luxury, tender of other men's lives, and prodigal of their own ; inferior in nothing to the old Greeks or Romans, and superior to each of those people in the perfections of the other. Such were our ancestors during their... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1843 - 470 pages
...the rights of others; improvers of learning and useful arts, enemies to luxury, tender of other men's lives, and prodigal of their own ; inferior in nothing to the old Greeks or Romans, and superior to each of those people in the perfections of the other. Such were our ancestors during their... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...rights of others ; improvers of learning and useful arts, enemies to luxury, tender of other men's lives and prodigal of their own ; inferior in nothing to the old Greeks or Romans, and superior to each of those people in the perfections of the other. Such were our ancestors during their... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...the rights of others; improvers of learning and useful arts, enemies to luxury, tender of other men's lives and prodigal of their own ; inferior in nothing to the old Greeks or Romans, and superior to each of those people in the perfections of the other. Such were our ancestors during their... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...rights of others ; improvers of learning and useful arts, enemies to luxury, tender of other men's lives, and prodigal of their own ; inferior in nothing to the old Greeks and Romans, and superior to each of those people in the . perfections of the other. Such were our ancestors... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1860 - 526 pages
...the rights of others; improvers of learning and ufeful arts, enemies to luxury, tender of other men's lives, and prodigal of their own ; inferior in nothing to the old Greeks and Romans, and fuperior to each of thofe people in the perfections of the other.' Such were our anceftors... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1860 - 530 pages
...the rights of others; improvers of learning and ufeful arts, enemies to luxury, tender of other men's lives, and prodigal of their own ; inferior in nothing to the old Greeks and Romans, and fuperior to each of thofe people in the perfections of the other.' Such were our anceftors... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...rights of others ; improvers of learning and useful arts, enemies to luxury, tender of other men's lives, and prodigal of their own ; inferior in nothing to the old Greeks and Romans, and superior to each of those people in the perfections of the other. Such were our ancestors... | |
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Romans, and superior to each of those people in the perfections of the other. Such were our ancestors during their rise and greatness ; but they degenerated, grew servile flatterers of men in power, adopted Epicurean notions, became venal, corrupt, injurious,... 
