 Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the trade...  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 27by Edmund Burke - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 446 pages
...rocked, and dandled into a legiflator ; " Nitor in adverfum" is the motto for a man like me. I poflefled not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the...the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As Httle did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by impofing on the underftandings, of the people.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 536 pages
...rocked, and dandled into a legislator ; " Nitor in aJversum" is .the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the...little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life (for in every step... | |
 | England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the art*, that recommend men to the favour and protection of...little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the unaeiataudjngs of die people, At every step of my progress In life, (for at every step... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...which he had to surmount in his career, are strongly hinted at in the following passage: "I possessed not one of the qualities nor cultivated one of the...to the favour and protection of the great. '.'I!' w&s not made for a minion or a tool. As Kttle ' ,did I follow the trade of winning the hearts by imposing'... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 pages
...in this work, are very truly and forcibly adverted to in the following passage : — " I possessed not one of the qualities nor cultivated one of the...little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts byimposing on the understandings of the people. At every step in my progress in life (for in every... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 526 pages
...rocked, and dandled into a legislator ; " Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the...was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did 1 follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every... | |
 | Theology - 1834 - 692 pages
...one of the qualities, nor cultivated one Is, that recommend men to the favoi and protection of the I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow ! of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings, of >le. At every step of my progress in... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...dandled into a slator — Nitor in adver sum is the motto fur a man like me. I possessed not one he r flocks and herds to another. Many, of the people in the back settlements protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I )\v the trade of winning... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 662 pages
...rocked, anddandled in to a legislator; " Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed supply to the poor, those necessaries which it has...be made sensible, that it is not in breaking the imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every... | |
 | England - 1834 - 1056 pages
...and dandled into a legislator. ' Nitor in adrersutii ' is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the...protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a too). As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings of... | |
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