| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1897 - 726 Seiten
...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...scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; T am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth."-17 It would, perhaps, be displaying a... | |
| 1857 - 998 Seiten
...son. " The storm," he says, in the agonj of his grief, " has gone over me, and 1 lie like one of those oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth !" Beaconsfield was to him no more... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 544 Seiten
...power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behooves us not at all to dispute, has ordered it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots and lie prostrate on the earth. There, and prostrate there, I most... | |
| John Francis Xavier O'Conor - 1898 - 364 Seiten
...died. The father's grief was agonizing and inconsolable. " The storm has gone over me, " he said, " and I lie like one of those old oaks, which the late...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots and lie prostrate, I am alone. " Burke never survived the death of... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1898 - 142 Seiten
...easily supplied. But a Disposer whose power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behooves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my 25 querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1899 - 202 Seiten
...pride and hope, was the crowning sorrow of Burke's life. " The storm has gone over me," he writes, " and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late...scattered about me. . . . I am stripped of all my honors; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth, and prostrate there I must unfeignedly... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1900 - 464 Seiten
...perpetuating his name and greatness through his son. Disappointed and heart-broken, he writes of this time : " The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. ... I am alone. I have none to... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1901 - 1022 Seiten
...easily supplied. But a Disposer whose power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. There, and prostrate there, I most... | |
| Julian Hawthorne - 1902 - 474 Seiten
...power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behooves us not at all to dispute, has ordered it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. There, and prostrate there, I most... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 Seiten
...tempora dnret, Quod facinua digntun tam longo admiserit sevo." Borke's grief finds a nobler expression. "The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered ahout me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots and lie prostrate on the earth.... | |
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