 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Philpot Curran, Robert Emmet, Henry Grattan - Ireland - 1840 - 562 pages
...electing those magistrates who were to govern them: as it was their birth-right to be ruled only by laws which they had a share in enacting. The aldermen,...years; sometimes supinely acquiescing under their degrada tion; sometimes, what was worse, exasperating the fury, and alarming the caution of their oppressors,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Man - Duty - 1859 - 298 pages
...fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance, which condition...consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." The truth of these words is confirmed by history both sacred and profane. It behoves us, therefore,... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1862 - 482 pages
...of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to I jhe active. The condition upon which God nath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance, which condition if he break, servitude is at once 1 the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. In this state of a-basement the Commons... | |
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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. 
