... resort to any stagnant, wasting reservoir of merit in me, or in any ancestry. He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action. Every day he lived he would have repurchased the bounty of the Crown, and ten times more, if ten... The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 281by Edmund Burke - 1826Full view - About this book
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a public creature ; and had no enjoyment whatever, but in the...we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it ' buhoves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a public creature ; and had no enjoyment whatever, but in the...the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied. He was sometimes a little dispirited by the disposition which we thought shewn to depress him and set... | |
| Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 572 pages
...friends, and the public, in the prime of life and the maturity of judgment. Such was the will of " a Disposer whose power we are little able to resist,...whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute," ' ' Burke. CHAP. XV. Miscellaneous Observationt. relative to Mr. Character. Mr. WAKEFIELD'S general... | |
| Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 572 pages
...friends, and the public, in the prime of life and the maturity of judgment. Such was the will of " a Disposer whose power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dis-r pute.'" • : CHAP. XV. Miscellaneous Observations relative to Mr. Wakejlelds . Character. i... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a public creature ; and had no enjoyment whatever, but in the performance of some duty. At this exir gent moment, the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied.. But a Disposer whose power we... | |
| Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a public creature ; and had no enjoyment whatever, but in the...the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied. He was sometimes a little dispirited by the disposition which we thought shewn to depress him and set... | |
| England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...lived he would have re -purchased the bounty of the Crown, and ten times more. He was made a public creature, and had no enjoyment whatever but in the...duty. At this exigent moment, the loss of a finished uian is not easily supplied." Then follows the passage which has been so often panegyrized, and which,... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...received. He was made a public creature ; and had no enjoyment whatever, but in the performance of sbme duty. At this exigent moment, the loss of a finished...not easily supplied. But a Disposer whose power we arc little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute ; has ordained it in... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - Authorship - 1828 - 588 pages
...great poetic beauty respecting his son, which, if my memory does not deceive me, runs thus : — " But a disposer, whose power we are little able to...behoves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in a different manner, and, (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest,) a far better. The storm has... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...he hüd re'd. He was made a public creature, and had no enjoyment whatever but in the дгшапсе through the year, for one of Shaktpeare's or Jouson's : th nian is easily supplied. ¡ut a Disposer, whose power we are little liable to resist, and whose wisdom... | |
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