 | John Philpot CURRAN (Right Hon.) - Irish - 1805 - 448 pages
...Tt is the common fate of the , indolent to fee their rights become a prey to the ' active. — The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition I if he break, fervitude is at once the confequence of lris crime, and the punifhment of his guilt.... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 492 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...years; sometimes supinely acquiescing under their degradation ; sometimes, what was worse, exasperating the fury, and alarming the caution of their oppressors,... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 354 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...years ; sometimes supinely acquiescing under their de. gradation ; sometimes, what was worse, exasperating the fury, and alarming the caution, of their... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 348 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...years ; sometimes supinely acquiescing under their degradation ; sometimes, what was worse, exasperating the fury, and alarming the caution, of their... | |
 | William Bailey - United States - 1826 - 244 pages
...of the indolent,' said the eloquent Curran, ' to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man,...consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.' Half mankind are voluntary slaves, and half the other half compulsory so ; the remaining portion are... | |
 | Orators - 1834 - 602 pages
...— 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 rendition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his rrimc and the punishment of his... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1841 - 810 pages
...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...consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt." PENSEES DE M. D'ALEMBEUT. DE LA RELIGION, &c. 12mo. Paris, 1774. LA liste des grands hommea qui ont... | |
 | Law - 1841 - 550 pages
...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...consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt, p. 4. Men. — Rely upon it, physical man is every where the same ; it is only the various operation... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 558 pages
...— 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...years ; sometimes supinely acquiescing under their dcgrada tion ; sometimes, what was worse, exasperating the fury, and alarming the caution of their... | |
 | Albert Welles - Sermons - 1845 - 286 pages
...world over, in all time, as it will be true to eternity. — " The only condition on which God gives LIBERTY to man, is eternal vigilance ; which condition, if he break, SERVITUDE, is at once the nat*That professed christian, who attempts " reform," of any spiritual value to his fellow man, by... | |
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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... 
