...reception it meets in the world, and that so few are offended with it. — Swift. Where vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station. — Calo. POET II V. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. " Our conversation a in heaven." I. WHEN life around us gaily...

...mind serene for contemplation ; Title and profit I resign ; The post of honour shall be mine. • " When impious men bear sway. " The post of honour is a private station." ADDISON'S CATO. 90 My fable read, their merits view, Then herd who will with such a crew. In days of...

...virtuous. To yourselves, therefore, I consign you. Enjoy your own pandemonium — ' When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.'" (') " I glory," said the Alderman, "in the fact laid to my charge. I know that whatever punishment...

...cleansed and purged away ! O that I could at this moment have said, as I felt, " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, " The post of honour is a private station :" but I had to move onwards, and did so. It will naturally be asked, as it often has been, why any...

...virtuous. To yourselves, therefore, I consign you. Enjoy your own pandemonium — ' When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.'" (') " I glory," said the Alderman, " in the fact laid to my charge. I know that whatever punishment...

...approval: it adorns the end of Act IV., and Cato himself delivers it:— " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." Let any one fancy this profound axiom admitted as a rule of conduct, and then inquire what the result...

...approval: it adorns the end of Act IV., and Cato himself delivers it:— • " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour Is a private station." Let any one fancy this profound axiom admitted as a rule of conduct, and then inquire what the result...

...fraud, and venting lies: Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,* A mind serene for contemplation: * When impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. AA&son. Title and profit I resign; The post of honour shall be mine. My Fable read, their merits view,...

...the period when the indignant lines of the poet are indeed applicable — " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." That the spirit of freedom was at no period the Theprin- ruling passion of the French Revolution has...

...personal observations on the nature 1823.] tare of the government, thought with Addison — , where impious men- bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. The only honorary distinction he ever received was that of Lord High Treasurer of Ireland ; and, were...