 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...of despotism, and the delight and admiration of all mankind. Seetion III. BURKE'S EULOGY ON HIS SON. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of...sort of founder of a family ; I should have left a SOD, who, in all the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius,... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...threats induce him to conceal any thing from the public. LAMENTATION FOR THE Loss OF HIS SON. (> y HAD it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of...succession, I should have been according to my mediocrity, und . the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a r family ; I should have left a son,... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...and every thing they do, I am amazed at the morbid strength, or the natural infirmity of his mind. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of...in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in tumour, iri generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...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 of...mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a famijy; I should havelerlason,who, in all the points in which personal meiit can be viewed, in science,... | |
 | English fiction - 1830 - 812 pages
...in a letter which he wrote soon after the death of his only son. " Had it pleased God," he said, " to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should...the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; I shouM have left a son, who, in all points in which personal merit can be viewed—in science, in erudition,... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 1064 pages
...his vision. The world was now for him, and he was for the world. " Had it nlnaapii ПпЛ " tía aara me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according...be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in honour, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment, would not have shewn... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...succeed him. He might be the propagator of the stock of honour, or the root of it, as he thought proper. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of...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 can be viewed, in science,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 618 pages
...succeed him. He might he the propagator of the stock of honour, or the root of it, as he thought proper. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have heen according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 572 pages
...succeed him. He might be the propagator of the stock of honor, or the root of it, as he thought proper. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of...in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment, would... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...was now for him ; and he was for the world. " Had it pleased God," he says, with melancholy pride, " to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should...be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in honour, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment, would not have shewn... | |
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