 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
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - Liczba stron: 646
...this workl." The Letter to a noble Lord speaks of the " sorrows of a desolate old man." And again, " 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... | |
 | 1867 - Liczba stron: 740
...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...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me — I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - Liczba stron: 572
...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...and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hvirricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots, and... | |
 | John Thornton - 1839 - Liczba stron: 136
...are gone before me ; those who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors. The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of those oaks which the hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - Liczba stron: 300
...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,... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - Liczba stron: 612
...in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The storm iias gone over me, and I lie, like one of those old oaks...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,... | |
 | 1842 - Liczba stron: 506
...son, and the cheerless gloom which in consequence darkened the evening of his life, he exclaims, " 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. There, and prostrate there, I... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - Liczba stron: 326
...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...storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old-oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. 1 am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn... | |
 | John Morison - 1844 - Liczba stron: 636
...his age, the stay of his life, the only comfort of his declining and now joyless years," he said " 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 !" In these feelings Dr. Bogue could... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Liczba stron: 738
...whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my ting upon the ground upon a little ettaw, in the lias scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate... | |
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