 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...  Edmund Burke's Letter to a Noble Lord - Strona 21autor: Edmund Burke - 1898 - Liczba stron: 83Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1883 - Liczba stron: 836
...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...and at every turnpike I met I was obliged to show my passport, and again and again to prove my sole title to the honour of being useful to my country, by... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - Liczba stron: 612
...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 trade of winning the hearts by imposing oil the understandings of the people. At every step of my progress in life (for in every step was I... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - Liczba stron: 668
...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...at every turnpike I met, I was obliged to show my passport, and again and again to prove my sole title to the honour of being useful to my country, by... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - Liczba stron: 530
...the lead every inch of way I made." Of his struggles : "At every step of my progress in life (for at every step was I traversed and opposed), and at every turnpike I met, I was obliged to show my passport, and again and again to prove my title to the honour of being useful to my country." 5. The... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1891 - Liczba stron: 648
...men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did 1 follow the trade of winning the hearts by imposing...on the understandings of the people. At every step in my progress in life (for in every step was 1 traversed and opposed), and at every turnpike I met,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - Liczba stron: 464
...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...— and at every turnpike I met, I was obliged to shew my passport, and again and again to prove my sole title to the honour of being useful to my country,... | |
 | 1895 - Liczba stron: 508
...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...at every turnpike I met, I was obliged to show my passport, and again and again to prove my sole title to the honor of being useful to my country, by... | |
 | William Minto - 1895 - Liczba stron: 578
...legislator ; Nitor in advcrsum is the motto for a man like me. At every step of my progress in life (for every step was I traversed and opposed), and at every turnpike I met, 1 was obliged to show my passport, and again and again to prove my title to the honour of being useful... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - Liczba stron: 106
...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...at every turnpike I met, I was obliged to show my passport, and again and again to prove my sole title to the honor of being useful to my country, by... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - Liczba stron: 338
...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 of winning the hearts, by imposing on 15 the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step was... | |
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