 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 páginas
...affection or aptness of the children be extraordinary, then it is good not to cross it. LORD BACON. lds the eel of science by the tail. POPE : DvHCtttd, Book II. Those authors whose accordin; to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family :... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 páginas
...heavy domestic calamity that had overshadowed his later years : — " Had it pleased God," he says, " to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should...merit can be viewed — in science, in erudition, in honour, in genius, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every liberal accomplishment, would... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 páginas
...woe ; And thus bright spirits mingle here, Such ties are formed below. BURKE ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON. it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession,...in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment, would... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1884 - 140 páginas
...believe the harshest despotism would be more successful, and perhaps in the end more humane. CLXX. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of...the points in which personal merit can be viewed, would not have shown himself inferior to the Duke, or to any of those whom he traces in his line. But... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1885 - 388 páginas
...you ; and yet I readily allow that all this comes under the proverb, Sus Minervam. EXERCISE CCCXCVII. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of...the points in which personal merit can be viewed, would not have shown himself inferior to the Duke, or to any of those whom he traces in his line. But... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1888 - 658 páginas
...doubted that several of his forefathers in that long series have degenerated into honor and virtue. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, 1 should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 592 páginas
...succeed him. He might be the propagator of the stock of honour, or the root of it, as he thought proper. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of...according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age 1 live in, a sort of founder of a family : I should have left a son, who, in all the points in which... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1892 - 668 páginas
...degenerated into honor and virtue. «' snould nave been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity ot the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family :...in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every liberal accomplishment, would... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 páginas
...the protection, of the British crown. EDMCMI BrRKR. BURKE'S ACCOUNT OF HIS SON. Had it pleased God t* continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have...son, who, in all the points in which personal merit ctm be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honour, in generosity, in Immunity,... | |
 | William Charteris Macpherson - 1893 - 438 páginas
...pleased God to continue to me the hopes of a succession," he wrote, in his "Letter to a Noble Lord," "I should have been according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of a founder of a family." If we turn for an opinion from Professor Bryce to Lord Nelson, who lived in... | |
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