 I am alone ; I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my Lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world.  “The” Works of Edmund Burke - Page 209by Edmund Burke - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1780 - 206 pages
...of his, who vifited his dunghill to read moral, political, and (economical lectures on his mifery. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my Lord, I greatly deceive myfelf, if in this hard feafon I would give a peck of refufe wheat for all that is called fame and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 446 pages
...of his, who vifited his dunghill to read moral, political, and ceconomical lectures on his mifery. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myfelf, if in this hard feafon I would give 3 peck of refufe wheat for all that is called fame and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 540 pages
...asperity, those ill-natured neighbours of his, who visited his dunghill to read moral,political,and economical lectures on his misery. I am alone. I have...fame and honour in the world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury ; it is a privilege : it is an indulgence for those who are at their ease.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 536 pages
...asperity, those ill-natured neighbours of his, who visited his dunghill to read moral,political,and economical lectures on his misery. I am alone. I have none to meet siy enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I would... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...blamed for reprehending, and with a considerable degree of verbal asperity, those ill-natured neighbours of his, who visited his dunghill to read moral, political,...fame and honour in the world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury ; it is a privilege ; it is an indulgence for those who are at their ease.... | |
 | England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...dust and ashes. But even so, I do not find him blamed for reprehending those ill-natured neighbours of his, who visited his dunghill to read moral, political,...alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. • * * I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have eucceeded me have gone before me. They... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...blamed for reprehending, and with a considerable degree of verbal asperity, those ill-natured neighbours of his, who visited his dunghill to read moral, political,...refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in this world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury; it is a privilege ; it is an indulgence... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...ill-natured neighbours of his, who visited his dunghill, to read moral, political, and ceconomica! lectures on his misery. I am alone. I have none to...deceive myself, if in this hard season I, would give a ffck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world. This is the appetite but... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...of his', who visited his dunglull to read moral, political, and economical lectures on his misery. 1 am alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deĢeive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots and lye prostrate on the earth." " I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. I greatly deceive myself if in this hard season of life I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all... | |
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