 The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly...  Edmund Burke's Letter to a Noble Lord - Strona 35autor: Edmund Burke - 1898 - Liczba stron: 83Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1824 - Liczba stron: 624
...addressed to a noble Lord, in answer to the Duke of Bedford's attack upon his pension, h« says : ' The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...has scattered about me. I ' am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up bv the roots, * and lie prostrate on the earth I am alone. I have none ' to... | |
 | 1827 - Liczba stron: 586
...affliction that Mr. Burke alludes in his Letter to the Duke of Bedford, published Feb. 24*. 1796. " The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth." DEAR SIR, I AM exceedingly flattered... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - Liczba stron: 618
...speaks of " the sorrows of a desolate old man." And again, " The storm has gone over me ; and I lye like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots and lye prostrate on the earth." " I am alone. I have none to meet... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - Liczba stron: 668
...whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute ; has ordained it in another manner, and, whatever my querulous weakness might suggest, a far better. The...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - Liczba stron: 446
...myself, or for my family, (a/as.' / have none,) I have nothing to hope or to fear in this world." " The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours. I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. I am alone. I have none to meet... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - Liczba stron: 444
...myself, or for my family, (a/as .' I have none,) I have nothing to hope or to fear in this world." " The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of those old oats which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours. I am torn up... | |
 | Henry Ellis - 1827 - Liczba stron: 580
...affliction that Mr. Burke alludes in his Letter to the Duke of Bedford, published Feb. 24ih. 1796. " The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old Oaks which the late hurricane has seattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate... | |
 | sir Henry Ellis - 1827 - Liczba stron: 768
...affliction that Mr. Burke alludes in his Letter to the Duke of Bedford, published Feb. 24lh. 1796. " The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old Oaks which the late hurricara' has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - Liczba stron: 314
...whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and, whatever my querulous weakness might suggest, a far better. The...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - Liczba stron: 588
...wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in a different manner, and, (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest,) a far better. The...hurricane has scattered about me ; I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. But there, and prostrate there,... | |
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