 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 206 pages
...of his, who vifited his dunghill to read moral, political, and (economical lectures on his mifery. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my Lord, I greatly deceive myfelf, if in this hard feafon I would give a peck of refufe wheat for all that is called fame and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 440 pages
...of his, who vifited his dunghill to read moral, political, and ceconomical lectures on his mifery. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myfelf, if in this hard feafon I would give a peck of refufe wheat for all that is called fame and... | |
 | 1834 - 1046 pages
...those ill-natured neighbours of his, who visited his dunghill to read moral, political, and economical lectures on his misery. I am alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. • * * I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have eucceeded me have gone before me. They... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pages
...those ill-natured neighbours of his, who visited his dunghill to read moral, political, and economical lectures on his misery. I am alone, I have none to...refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in this world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury; it is a privilege ; it is an indulgence... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...ill-natured neighbours of his, who visited his dunghill, to read moral, political, and ceconomica! lectures on his misery. I am alone. I have none to...deceive myself, if in this hard season I, would give a ffck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world. This is the appetite but... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...of his', who visited his dunglull to read moral, political, and economical lectures on his misery. 1 am alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly de«eive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots and lye prostrate on the earth." " I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. I greatly deceive myself if in this hard season of life I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...deponere, et toto animo, atq: omoi cur& $(\oao<t>uv. Sic, inquam, in ammo est: vellem ab initio." " Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this...all that is called fame and honour in the world." Such is the lamentation of Burke. " If this," says Lord Bacon, " be to be a Chancellor, I think if... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...words of Cicero. " Indeed, my Lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in tliis hard season I would g_ive a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and ' honour in the world," are the words of Burke. Milton in his tract on Education speaking of young men when they quit the universities.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 446 pages
...I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. I greatly deceive myself if in this hard season of life I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world." — ED. 1 Let it be remembered by those who accuse Dr. Johnson of illiberality, that both were Scotchmen.... | |
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Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if, in this hard season, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honor in the world. 
