| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 492 pages
...much more numerous, and therefore so much less united. It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition...liberty to man is eternal vigilance \ which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. In... | |
| John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 348 pages
...much more numerous, and, therefore, so much less united. It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition...liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. In... | |
| John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 354 pages
...much more numerous, and, therefore, so much less united. It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become / /, a prey to the active. The...liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. In... | |
| William Bailey - United States - 1826 - 244 pages
...endurance of every wrong. ' It js the common fate of the indolent,' said the eloquent Curran, ' to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition...liberty to man, is eternal vigilance ; which condition, if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.' Half... | |
| Orators - 1834 - 602 pages
...more numerous, and therefore so much less united. — It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. — The...given liberty to man is eternal vigilance ; which rendition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his rrimc and the punishment of his... | |
| 1840 - 582 pages
...before our readers. " It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become the prey of the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal tigtlance, which if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his folly and the punishment... | |
| John Philpot Curran, Robert Emmet, Henry Grattan - Ireland - 1840 - 562 pages
...united.—It is the common fate of the. indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.—The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. In... | |
| Law - 1841 - 550 pages
...progress or direction of its motion. Page215: Indolence. — It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition...upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilence ; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1841 - 810 pages
...find you slumbering on your post, well and truly was it said by the eloquent John Philpott Curran, "the condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition, if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt." PENSEES... | |
| Great Britain - 1845 - 558 pages
...more numerous, and therefore so much less united. — It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. — The...liberty to man is eternal vigilance ; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. In... | |
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