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" ... 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 281
by Edmund Burke - 1826
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The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of ..., Volume 2

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...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 2

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...
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Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield, Volume 2

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...
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Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield, Volume 2

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...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

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...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 2

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...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 35

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,...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

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...
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I. The Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K. B., to the Authorship of Junius's ...

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...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

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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