 Father of all blessings — it is tempered with many alleviations, many comforts. Every attempt to fly from it, and to refuse the very terms of our existence, becomes much more truly a curse, and heavier pains and penalties fall upon those who would elude...  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 368by Edmund Burke - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...curse, it is, as might be expected, from the curses of the Father of all blessings; it is lempered with many alleviations, many comforts. Every attempt to fly from it, and to refuse the very terms of our existence, becomes much more truly a curse; and heavier pains and penalties... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1892 - 450 pages
...inflicted as a curse, it is as might be expected from the curses of the Father of all Blessings— it is tempered with many alleviations, many comforts. Every attempt to fly from it, and to refuse the very terms of our existence, becomes much more truly a curse, and heavier pains and penalties... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 450 pages
...inflicted as a curse, it is as might be expected from the curses of the Father of all Blessings — it is tempered with many alleviations, many comforts. Every attempt to fly from it, and to refuse the very terms of our existence, becomes much more truly a curse, and heavier pains and penalties... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...inflicted as a curse, it is as might be erpected from the curses of the Father of all Blessings — it is tempered with many alleviations, many comforts. Every attempt to fly from it, and to refuse the very terms of our existence, becomes much more truly a curse, and heavier pains and penalties... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 648 pages
...as a curse, it is—as might be expected from the curses of the Father of all blessings—tempered with many alleviations, many comforts. Every attempt to fly from it, and to refuse the very terms of our existence, becomes much more truly a curse, and heavier pains and penalties... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 534 pages
...inflicted as a curse, it is, as might be expected, from the curses of the Father of all blessings ; it is tempered with many alleviations, many comforts. Every attempt to fly froai it, and to refuse the very terms of our existence, becomes much more truly a curse ; and heavier... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 534 pages
...inflicted as a curse, it is, as might be expected, from the curses of the Father of all blessings ; it is tempered with many alleviations, many comforts. Every attempt to fly froai it, and to refuse the very terms of our existence, becomes much more truly a curse ; and heavier... | |
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