 | James Burgh - 1775 - 540 σελίδες
...and fet up both their liberty and country to fale, to the beft bidder. The republic, which was the common prey to both, was thus rent to pieces between the contending parties. As an univerfal felfimnefs is the genuine effect of univerfal luxury, fo the natural effect of felfifhnefs is to break... | |
 | Edward Wortley Montagu - 1793 - 364 σελίδες
...up both their liberty -md their country to fale to the beft bidder. ' The Republic , which was the common >prey to both , was thus rent to pieces between the contending parties. As an imperium, potcntia fequebatur : hsbefcere virtus, paupertas probro hsberi , innocentia pro malevolentia... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1807 - 394 σελίδες
...and set ' up both their liberty and country to sale, to " the best bidder. The republic, which was * common prey to both, was thus rent to pieces ' between the contending factions. — A state so * circumstanced must always furnish an ample ' supply of proper instruments... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1807 - 386 σελίδες
...up both their liberty and country to sale, to ' tfye best bidder. The republic, which was the 194 ' common prey to both, was thus rent to pieces ' between the contending factions. — A state so ' circumstanced must always furnish an ample ' supply of proper instruments... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 456 σελίδες
...and set up both their liberty and country to sale, to the best bidder. The republic, which was the common prey to both, was thus rent to pieces between the contending factions. — A state so circumstanced must always furnish an ample supply of proper instruments for... | |
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The poor, now dissolute and desperate, were ready to engage in every seditious insurrection, which promised them the plunder of the rich, and set up both their liberty and country to sale, to the best bidder. The republic, which was the common prey to... 