 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1780 - 206 pages
...from pain, and poverty, and difeafe. It is an inftindt ; and under the direction of reafon, inftinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have fucceeded me are gone before me. They who mould have been to me as pofterity are in the place of anceftors.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 440 pages
...from pain, and poverty, and difeafe. It is an inftincl:; and under the direction of reafon, inftincl: is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have fucceeded me are gone before me. They who Ihould have been to me as pofterity are in the place of anceftors.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...grafting the irtues oil the stock of the natural affections. i We are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty, and...direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. INSTRUCTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...ucs on the stock of the natural affections. * * * * * * * * We are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty, and...direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. INSTRUCTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...; it is an indulgence for those who are at their ease. But we are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty, and...is an instinct ; and under the direction of reason, in-. stinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me... | |
 | Missions - 1858 - 778 pages
...son, — one of the most painful of literary offices, that reminds us of Burke's touching words — "I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded ше are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in theplace of ancestors."... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...irtues on the stock of the natural affections. * * * * 149 We are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty, and...direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. INSTRUCTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...: it is an indulgence for those who are at their ease. But we are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink 'from pain, and poverty,...inverted order. They •who. ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...; it is an indulgence for those who are at their ease. But we are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty, and...direction of reason, instinct is always- in the right. I lived in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me are gone before me. They who should... | |
 | 1822 - 858 pages
...Christians, as men and as Britons. ' We are all of us,' (says an eminent writer,) ' made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty and...disease. It is an instinct ; and, under the direction of геаюп, mslinct is always In the right.' " How much were it to be wished that certain defenders... | |
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I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me; they who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. 
