 Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the trade...  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 27by Edmund Burke - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...rocked, and dandled into a legislator : Nitor in adversum J is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the...little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the un1 I pcees forward agaiust opposition. derstandings, of the people. At every step... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1877 - 524 pages
...rocked and dandled into a legislator : " Nitor in adversum " is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities nor cultivated one of the arts that recommend men to the favor and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the... | |
 | John Morley - 1879 - 256 pages
...rocked and dandled into a legislator; Nitor in adversum is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the...little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings of the people. At every step of my progress in life, for in every step... | |
 | John Morley - 1879 - 242 pages
...rocked and dandled into a legislator; Nitor in adversum is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the...little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings of the people. At every step of my progress in life, for in every step... | |
 | John Morley - Fiction - 1879 - 236 pages
...rocked and dandled into a legislator ; Nitor in adversum is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the...little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, hy imposing on the understandings of the people. At every step of my progress in life, for in every... | |
 | John Morley - Fiction - 1879 - 236 pages
...rocked and dandled into a legislator ; Nitor in adversum is" the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the...and protection of the great. I was not made for a million or a tool. As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings... | |
 | Current events - 1879 - 470 pages
...rocked and dan1 died into a legislator : Nitor in adveraum is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities nor cultivated one of the arts that recommend men to the favor and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little uid I follow the... | |
 | John George Edgar - Biography - 1879 - 416 pages
...resolution. His own fearless pen has recorded, for the edification of posterity, that he possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend aspiring intellect to the favour of the powerful ; he was not made for a minion or a tool ; and he... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...cultivated one of the arts, that recommend rneu to the favour nnd protection of the great. I was uot made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts by imposing on the understandings of the people. At every-step of my progress in life — for in eveiy... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...rocked and dandled into a legislator; Nitor inadverswn is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the...little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings of the people. At every step of my progress in life, for in every step... | |
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