| Edmund Burke - 1780 - 206 páginas
...Iharp, as frem from the mint of honour. As he pleafed he might reflect honour on his predeceflbrs, or throw it forward on thofe who were to fucceed him....the points in which perfonal merit can be viewed, in fci-. ence, in erudition, in genius, in tafte, in honour, in generofity, in humanity, in every liberal... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 páginas
...Debts, BURKE, (RICHARD) ESQ, HAD-it pleafed.God to continue to me the hopes of fucceffion, I fhould have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity...the age I live in, a fort of founder of a family; I fhould have left a fon, who, in. all the points in which perfonal merit can be viewed, in fcience,... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 páginas
...son is peculiarly pathetic : ' Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; -f- I should have left a son, \vho, in all the points in which personal... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1803 - 444 páginas
...predeceffors, or throw it forward on thofe who were to fucceed him. He might be the propagator of the flock of honour, or the root of it, as he thought proper....the age I live in, a fort of founder of a family ; I fhould have left a fon, who, in all the points in which perfonal merit can be viewed, in fcience, in... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1803 - 440 páginas
...the root of it, as he thought proper. Had it pleafed God to continue to me the hopes of fucceffiori, I mould have been according to my mediocrity, and...fon, who, in all the points in which perfonal merit can-be viewed, in fcience, in erudition, in genius, in tafte, in honour, in generofity, in humanity,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 páginas
...more of him. 138 RICHARD BURKE. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; I should have left a son, who, in all the points in which personal merit... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 páginas
...Burke r s Eulogy on his Son. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes ofsuccession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; 1 should have left a son, who, in all the points in which personal merit... | |
| Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 páginas
...more of him. 138 RICHARD BURKE. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; I should have left a son, \vho, in all the points in which personal merit... | |
| 1834 - 1046 páginas
...it pleased God," he says, with pathetic pride, " to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family. I should have left a son, who, in all the points in which personal merit... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 páginas
...III. BURKE'S EULOGY ON HIS SON. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; I should have left a SOD, who, in all the points in which personal merit... | |
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