 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 Seiten
...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. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 536 Seiten
...instinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation (which evermust subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 Seiten
...stinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would... | |
 | 1841 - 712 Seiten
...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 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,... | |
 | 1858 - 778 Seiten
...Burke's touching words — "I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded ше are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in theplace of ancestors." Instead of the son raising a monument to his father, the father has done it... | |
 | 1834 - 1046 Seiten
...meet my enemies in the gate. • * * I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have eucceeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety which he would... | |
 | John Evans - 1818 - 564 Seiten
...event in language indicative of that grief which he felt on the occasion : — " The storm (says he) 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,... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 Seiten
...instinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They •who. ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 Seiten
...instinct is always in the right. I lived in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors. 1 owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety which he would... | |
 | 1823 - 778 Seiten
...of Bedford, &c., p. 22) : " I live in an inverted order ; they who ought to have succeeded me, are gone before me : they who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors, &c." Of the remainder of the quotation from Cicero the import is the same with the following assurance,... | |
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I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me.' They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. 
