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" he lies floating many a rood' he is still a creature. His ribs, his fins, his whalebone, his blubber, the very spiracles through which he spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray, everything of him and about... "
The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 35
by Edmund Burke - 1803
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 662 pages
...spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray, — every tiling n, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland, or question the dispensation of the royal favour ? I really am at a loss to draw any sort of parallel...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...through which he spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray, — every thing of him and about him is from the throne. Is it for him to question the dispensation of the royal favour? * * * * Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...through which he spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray — a similar effect ; and, by the sole strength of the sound, question the dispensation of the royal favour ?" Again : " Deep philosophers are no triflers ; brave...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...which he spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray,—every thing of him and about him is from the throne. Is it for him to question the dispensation of the royal favour? • * » * Had it pleased God to continue to me the...
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Peerage for the People

William Carpenter - Nobility - 1837 - 894 pages
...spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray — everything of him and about him is from the throne. Is it for him to question the dispensation of the royal favour f* After thus pourtraying his Grace, he proceeds to describe...
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A memoir of the political life of ... Edmund Burke

George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...through which he spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray ; every thing of him and about him is from the throne. Is it for him to question the dispensation of the Royal favour ? * * * * It would be not gross adulation, but uncivil...
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A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund ..., Volume 2

George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...through which he spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray ; every thing of him and about him is from the throne. Is it for him to question the dispensation of the Royal favour ? * * * * It would be not gross adulation, but uncivil...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1842 - 326 pages
...he spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray,—everything of him and about him is from the throne. Is it for Aim to question the dispensation of the royal favor ? * * * * Had it pleased God to continue to me...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...spouts a t< in-cut of brine against his origin, and covers me all "ver with the spray — everything { L question the dispensation of the royal favour ! I really am at a loss to draw any snrt of parallel...
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray — everything of him and about him is from the throne. Is it for him to question the dispensation of the royal favour ? Mr. Burke's Account of his Son, Had it pleased God...
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