 Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family: I should have left a son who, in all the points in which personal merit...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 45by Edmund Burke - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1780 - 206 pages
...Iharp, as frem from the mint of honour. As he pleafed he might reflect honour on his predeceflbrs, or throw it forward on thofe who were to fucceed him....the points in which perfonal merit can be viewed, in fci-. ence, in erudition, in genius, in tafte, in honour, in generofity, in humanity, in every liberal... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...Debts, BURKE, (RICHARD) ESQ, HAD-it pleafed.God to continue to me the hopes of fucceffion, I fhould have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity...the age I live in, a fort of founder of a family; I fhould have left a fon, who, in. all the points in which perfonal merit can be viewed, in fcience,... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...son is peculiarly pathetic : ' Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; -f- I should have left a son, \vho, in all the points in which personal... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 444 pages
...predeceffors, or throw it forward on thofe who were to fucceed him. He might be the propagator of the flock of honour, or the root of it, as he thought proper....the age I live in, a fort of founder of a family ; I fhould have left a fon, who, in all the points in which perfonal merit can be viewed, in fcience, in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 440 pages
...the root of it, as he thought proper. Had it pleafed God to continue to me the hopes of fucceffiori, I mould have been according to my mediocrity, and...fon, who, in all the points in which perfonal merit can-be viewed, in fcience, in erudition, in genius, in tafte, in honour, in generofity, in humanity,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...more of him. 138 RICHARD BURKE. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; I should have left a son, who, in all the points in which personal merit... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...Burke r s Eulogy on his Son. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes ofsuccession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; 1 should have left a son, who, in all the points in which personal merit... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...more of him. 138 RICHARD BURKE. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; I should have left a son, \vho, in all the points in which personal merit... | |
 | England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...it pleased God," he says, with pathetic pride, " to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family. I should have left a son, who, in all the points in which personal merit... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...III. BURKE'S EULOGY ON HIS SON. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; I should have left a SOD, who, in all the points in which personal merit... | |
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