 | Edmund Burke - 718 Seiten
...his line. . . . 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...suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me; and 1 lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 534 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...suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me ; and I He like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 534 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...suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me ; and I He like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all... | |
 | David I. Durham - 2008 - 264 Seiten
...Milliard's son. In his reminiscences Milliard borrowed language from Edmund Burke to describe his pain, "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 on the earth! There prostrate I must unfeignedly... | |
 | Thomas Chaimowicz - 2011 - 151 Seiten
...anguish with which he ultimately followed the events in France: The storm has gone over me, and I am like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. . .1 am torn up by the roots and lie prostrate on the earth. . .1 am alone, I have none to meet my... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 750 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...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me — I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the... | |
 | 1851 - 598 Seiten
...! I have none), I have nothing to hupe or to fear in this world." And again in another letter — " 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 lie prostrate on the earth ; T am alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. I greatly... | |
 | 1834 - 726 Seiten
...ii. p. 199. And then there is that mournful strain in which he laments the loss of his son : — ' The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of...oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. 1 am stripped of all my honors ; I nm torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There,... | |
 | Joseph Mayo Atkinson - 1860 - 304 Seiten
...survive.* * Nothing can be more affecting than the language in which Burke deplores the death of his son: "The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of...oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about ine. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots and lie prostrate on the earth. I... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1927 - 378 Seiten
...storm has gone over me," writes the desolate father to his insolent critic, the Duke of Bedford, " and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of my honours." It does not appear that Richard Burke's qualities were transcendent as his father fondly... | |
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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 honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. 
