 can be more honourable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and Conscience ? to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us ? to be proof against poverty, pain, and death itself? I mean so far as not to do...  Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects ... - Page 223by Jeremy Collier - 1709Full view - About this book
 | L M. Stretch - 1801 - 248 pages
...intent on 56 C 0 NSTAWC T. his works , than a brave man superior to his sufferings. . i! . •. j •. "What can be more honourable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience ; to maintain the dignity of our nature , and the station assigned us ; to be... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1774 - 366 pages
...his Eflay on Fortitude, has treated this fubject with great wit and magnanimity. " What, fays " he, can be more honourable than to have courage " enough to execute the commands of reafon and con' fcience ; to maintain the dignity of our Nature, and ' the ftation affigned us ? To be proof againft... | |
 | 1785 - 698 pages
...his Eflay on Fortitude, has treated this lubjeil wiih great wit end magnanimity. 'What,' lays he, ' can be more honourable than to have courage enough to execute the commands ot reafon and confcience; to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the Itation affigned us? To be... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801 - 364 pages
...efiay on i Fortitude, has treated this fubjeft with great wit and magnanimity. ' What, fays he, cart be more honourable than to have courage enough to> execute the commands of reafon and confcience ; \omaintain the dignity of our nature, and the ftation affigned us ? To be proof againft poverty,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...in his Essay on Fortitude, has treated this subject with great wit and magnanimity. ."What (says he) can be more honourable 'than to; have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience; to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us? To be proof... | |
 | T Nixon - 1806 - 176 pages
...another's virtue, is to follow it ; and the best means to cry down another's vice, is to decline it. What can be more honourable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience; to maintain the dig* iify of our nature, and the station assigned •us ; to... | |
 | L. M. Stretch - 1808 - 316 pages
...worthy the regard of the Creator, intent on his works, than a brave man superior to his sufferings. What can: be more honourable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience ; to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us ; to be... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 446 pages
...Essay on Fortitude," has treated this Abject with great wit and •aagnanimity. « What, * says hi, " can be more honourable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience; to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us ? to be proof... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 306 pages
...Essay on Fortitude," has treated this subject with great- wit and magnanimity. " What," says he, " can be more honourable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience ; to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us ? to be... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 288 pages
...' Essay on Fortitude,' has treated this subject with great wit and magnanimity. ' What,' says he, ' can be more honourable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience ; to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us ? to be... | |
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