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" ... exclusively to the tomb — the natural and only period of human inconstancy, with regard either to desert or to opinion : for they are the very same hands which erect that very frequently (and sometimes with reason enough) pluck down the statue.... "
The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke - Page 211
by Edmund Burke - 1877
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1813 - 600 pages
...frequently (and sometimes with reason enough) pluck down the statue. Had such an unmerited and unlooked-for compliment been paid to me two years ago, the fragments...according to the law of projectiles, to the windows of the attorney general, or of my old friend Monk Mason. To speak seriously — let me assnre you, my dear...
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Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his ...

Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...frequently (and sometimes with reason enough) pluck down the statue. Had such an unmerited and unlocked for compliment been paid to me two years ago, the fragments...AttorneyGeneral, or of my old friend Monk Mason." Besides these topics of the session, he took an active part in the questions on the state of the Navy,...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 676 pages
...with reason enough) pluck down the statue. Had such an unmerited and unlooked-for compliment been paid me two years ago, the fragments of the piece might,...according to the law of projectiles, to the windows of the attorney general, or of my old friend Monk Mason. To speak seriously — let me assure you, my dear...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 620 pages
...with reason enough) pluck down the statue. Had such an unmerited and unlooked-for compliment been paid diminution. I hase not seen, or heard it asserted : I have no reason to believe it attorney general, or of my oíd friend Monk Mason. To speak seriously — let me assure you, my dear...
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Memoir of the Life and Character of Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His ...

Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...frequently (and sometimes with reason enough) pluck down the statue. Had such an unmerited and unlocked for compliment been paid to me two years ago, the fragments...Attorney-General, or of my old friend Monk Mason." In a sharp debate on the ordnance estimates, soon after this time, no reply being given to his questions...
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A Narrative of the Reformation at Birr, in the King's County, Ireland: Of ...

Michael Crotty - 1850 - 488 pages
...with reason enough) pluck down the statue. Had such an unmerited and unlooked for compliment been paid me two years ago, the fragments of the piece might...service, while they were moving, according to the laws of projectiles, to the windows of the Attorney-General, or of my old friend Monk Mason." If, instead...
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Life of ... Edmund Burke, revised by the author

sir James Prior - 1854 - 586 pages
...frequently (and sometimes with reason enough) pluck down the statue. Had such an unmerited and unlocked for compliment been paid to me two years ago, the fragments...moving according to the law of projectiles, to the wiadows of the Attorney- General, or of my old friend Monk Mason."In a sharp, debate on, the ordnance...
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Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Sir James Prior - 1854 - 840 pages
...frequently (and sometimes with reason enough) pluck down the statue. Had such an unmerited and unlocked for compliment been paid to me two years ago, the fragments...advantage of seeing actual service, while they were moving iccording to the law of projectiles, to the windows of the Attorney- General, or of my old friend Monk...
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Anecdote Biography

John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 pages
...that very frequently (and sometimes with reason enough) pluck down the statue. Had such an unmerited compliment been paid to me two years ago, the fragments...projectiles, to the windows of the Attorney-General, or my old friend Monk Mason." BURKE'S E0LOGIUM ON JOHN HOWARD. It was almost immediately after the second...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...while they were moving, according to the law of projectiles, to the windows of the attorney general, or of my old friend Monk Mason. To speak seriously...assure you, my dear sir, that though I am not permitted tu rejoico at all its effects, there is not one man on your side of tho wator more pleased to sec the...
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