Joseph Addison Quotes About Country

• ¿No hay alguna maldición elegida, algún trueno oculto en los almacenes del cielo, rojo de ira poco común, para fulminar al hombre que debe su grandeza a la ruina de su país?

  Joseph Addison

  País, Integridad, Patriótico

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The preface. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. An opera. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. An essay of Virgil's Georgics. Cato. A tragedy. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Three setts of medals illustrated by the ancient poets, in the foregoing dialogues”, p.278

• A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, World, Messages

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.120

• If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Thinking, Secret

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.3

• Las virtudes femeninas son de carácter doméstico. La Familia es la Provincia apropiada para que las Mujeres Privadas Brillen. Si deben mostrar su Celo por lo Público, que no sea contra aquellos que tal vez sean de la misma Familia, o al menos de la misma Religión o Nación, sino contra aquellos que son los Enemigos abiertos, profesos e indudables de su Fe, Libertad y País.

  Joseph Addison

  País, Mujeres, Brillante

  Joseph Addison (1749). “The Spectator”, p.10

• It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.

  Joseph Addison

  Deportes, País, Hombres

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.415

• Qué pena es que podamos morir, sólo una vez para servir a nuestro país.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Patriotic, Patriotism

  Cato act 4, sc. 4 (1713) See Nathan Hale 1

• Siempre me regocijo cuando veo un tribunal lleno de un hombre de temperamento recto e inflexible, que en la ejecución de las leyes de su país puede superar todo temor privado, resentimiento, solicitud e incluso la propia piedad. Cualquiera que sea la pasión que entre en una sentencia o decisión, hasta ahí habrá en ella un tinte de injusticia. En resumen, la justicia descarta el partido, la amistad, el parentesco y, por lo tanto, siempre se la representa como ciega, para que podamos suponer que sus pensamientos están totalmente concentrados en la equidad de una causa, sin desviarse ni prejuzgarse por objetos ajenos a ella.

  Joseph Addison

  País, Fiesta, Pasión

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator [no. 487-600] The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war. The trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder [no. 1-30”, p.177

• There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Want, Decay

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1866). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.410

• I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity itself.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Men, Justice

  Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.329

• I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.

  Joseph Addison

  País, Hombres, Manos

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.49

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