 | Hugh Stuart Boyd - 1825 - 84 pages
...worthy of a shrine oracular. O Labienus, what should I inquire? If it were better on the battle-plain To die a freeman, than to live a slave? If life, howe'er...righteous wing her shaft In vain? If holy motives be alone required, And virtue, spurned or cherished, still be virtue? These truths we know, nor can the God... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1819 - 584 pages
...О Labienus, whut should 1 inquire? If it were better, on the battle-plain "Го de a freeman, lhan to live a slave? If life, howe'er protracted, be a...Fortune Against the righteous wing her shaft in vain ? II holy motives be alone required, And virtue, spnrn'd orcherish'd, still lie virtue ? Tlu'se truths... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1815 - 756 pages
...Labienus, what should I inquire ? If it were better, on th<i battle-plain To die a freeman, than tn live a slave ?' If life, howe'er protracted, be a span ? •;, If good men stand invincible? if ,ortun« Against the righteous wing her shaft m ' vaiuff T >"'' .«»•' i' 11 ,s •1-nT) TT L> •••i*''i<*i>... | |
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If it were better on the battle-plain To die a freeman, than to live a slave? If life, howe'er protracted, be a span? If good men stand invincible ? If Fortune Against the righteous wing her shaft In vain? If holy motives be alone required, And virtue,... 