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" The labours of these monarchs were overpaid by the immense reward that inseparably waited on their success ; by the honest pride of virtue, and by the exquisite delight of beholding the general happiness of which they were the authors. "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 130
by Edward Gibbon - 1806
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Quarterly Review, Volume 37, Issue 73

1828 - 598 pages
...freedom. The labours of these monarch s were overpaid by the immense reward that inseparably waited on their success ; by the honest pride of virtue,...general happiness of which they were the authors.' — Idem, vol. ip 126. The 'superstition barbare de la Palestine' (as a bolder infidel phrases it)...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...freedom. The labours of these monarchs were overpaid by the immense reward that inseparably waited on their success ; by the honest pride of virtue,...general happiness of which they were the authors.' — Idem, vol. ip 126. The ' superstition barbare de la Palestine' (as a bolder infidel phrases it)...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 626 pages
...freedom. The labours of these monarch s were overpaid by the immense reward that inseparably waited on their success ; by the honest pride of virtue,...general happiness of which they were the authors.' — Idem, vol. ip 126. The ' superstition barbare de la Palestine' (as a bolder infidel phrases it)...
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The Annals of Jamaica, Volume 2

George Wilson Bridges - Jamaica - 1828 - 530 pages
...debts. The labours of that excellent Governor were at length repaid by the immense reward which waited on their success — by the honest pride of virtue, and by the exquisite delight of beholding the increasing prosperity, of which he was the principal author. A just, but melancholy, reflexion embittered,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...by the immense reward that inseparably waited on their success ; by the honest pride of virtue, »nd by the exquisite delight of beholding the general happiness of which they were the authors.' — Idem, vol. ip 126. The ' superstition barbare de la Palestine' (as a bolder infidel phrases it)...
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A key to the Revelation of St. John

Philip Allwood - Bible - 1829 - 538 pages
...liberty, " and were pleased with considering themselves " as the accountable ministers of the laws." " pride of virtue, and by the exquisite delight of "...general happiness of which they " were the authors "." And yet, in the short but mild and pacific reign of Nerva, though he rescinded the cruel edicts...
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Address to Parliament on the Duties of Great Britain to India: In Respect of ...

Charles Hay Cameron - Education - 1853 - 220 pages
...labours of these monarchs," he remarks, " were overpaid by the immense reward that inseparably waited on their success, by the honest pride of virtue, and...have recollected the instability of a happiness which depended on the character of a single man. The fatal moment was perhaps approaching when some licentious...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...success; by the n«precv honest pride of virtue, and by the exquisite delight of be- nm! "* holding the general happiness of which they were the authors....have recollected the instability of a happiness which depended on the character of a single man. The fatal moment was perhaps approaching, when some licentious...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Lectures on political economy ... To ...

Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 pages
...princes to whom the foregoing passage refers) were overpaid by the immense reward that inseparably waited on their success, by the honest pride of virtue, and...general happiness, of which they were the authors," immediately subjoins, — " A just but melancholy reflection embittered the noblest of human enjoyments....
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 9

Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 pages
...that inseparably waited on their success, by the honest pride of * [Decline and Fall, &c., Chap, iii.] virtue, and by the exquisite delight of beholding...general happiness, of which they were the authors," immediately subjoins, — " A just but melancholy reflection embittered the noblest of human enjoyments....
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