 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 Phillips Newman - 1834 - Liczba stron: 320
...and (whatever my querulous weakness might (suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me ; and 1 lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered nbout me I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots, ind lif orostrate on the earth... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - Liczba stron: 458
...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... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - Liczba stron: 382
...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...like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane hath scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours : I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - Liczba stron: 740
...me have gone before me. They 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...stripped of all my honors; I am torn up by the roots." His increased irritability is observable, likewise, in the writings w~hich he gave to the world after... | |
 | Nagendra Nath Ghosh - 1887 - Liczba stron: 222
...something in this, at least as touching as in Burke's lament over the death of his promising son : " 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - Liczba stron: 592
...dispute, has 1 \t si n:vn aliam venture fata Neroni, &c. ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me-jjmd.I-lie like one of those old oak a which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1891 - Liczba stron: 648
...this world." 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - Liczba stron: 400
...on Policy of Allies. 1794 Deaths of his brother and his son. Retirement from Parliament. LAST YEARS. 'The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me.' Letter to a Noble Lord. 1795 'Thoughts and Details on Sc0rclt*' Letter to a Noble Lord.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - Liczba stron: 464
...whose wisdom it behoves us not all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and — whatever my querulous weakness might suggest — a far better....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 1 There, and prostrate there, I... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - Liczba stron: 660
...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... | |
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