| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 502 pages
...country in this condition ? Is it a pleasure to see all that i love in the world is sold and destroyed ? Shall I renounce all my old principles, learn the vile court arts, and make my peace by bribing some of them ? Shall their corruption and vice be my safety ? Ah ! no : better is a life among strangers,... | |
| 1854 - 434 pages
...country in this condition ? Is it a pleasure to see that all I love in the world is sold and destroyed? Shall I renounce all my old principles, learn the vile court arts, and make my peace by bribing some of them ? Shall their corruption and vice be my safety ? Ah ! no ! Better is a life among strangers,... | |
| 1741 - 758 pages
...the world fold and ,+!>. Itiiiyjil r Shall 1 renounce all my oKi principles, learn the vile cof.irt arts, and make my peace by bribing fome of them > Shall their corruption and v;ce be my fafety : Ah, nol better is a life among ftrangers, than in my own country upon fucb conditions;... | |
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