 At the very moment when some of them seemed plunged in unfathomable abysses of disgrace and disaster, they have suddenly emerged. They have begun a new course, and opened a new reckoning ; and even in the depths of their calamity, and on the very ruins...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 321by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | 1797 - 506 pages
...his retreat, his difgrace, have brought innumerable calamities on a whole nation. A common foldier, a child, a girl at the door of an inn, have changed the face' of fortune, and aimed of nature. Such, and often influenced by fuch cailles, has commonly been the fate of monarchies... | |
 | 1797 - 514 pages
...his retreat, his difgrace, have brought innumerable calamities on a whole nation. A common ioldier, a child, a girl at the door of an inn, have changed the face of fortune, and alniofl of nature. Such, and often influenced by fuch caufes, has commonly been the fate of monarchies... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 446 pages
...his retreat, his difgrace, have brought innumerable calamities on a whole nation. A common foldier, a child, a girl at the door of an inn, have changed the face of fortune, and almoft of nature. Such, and often influenced by fuch caufes, has Commonly been the fate of monarchies... | |
 | 1806 - 744 pages
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 | 1834 - 918 pages
...have suddenly emerged ; they have begun a new course, and opened a new reckoning, and even in the very depths of their calamity, and on the very ruins of...changed the face of fortune, and almost of nature." From thus laying down the general principles, he strikingly reverts to the case of the French monarchy.... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...said to ebb or flow. Some appear to have spent their vigour at their commencement. Some have blared out in their glory a little before their extinction....changed the face of fortune, and almost of nature. In the Revolution of France two sorts of men were principally concerned in giving a character and determination... | |
 | 1853 - 1142 pages
...He did so when he made the world. Again, God often works by means, which seem to us insignificant. " The death of a man at a critical juncture, his disgust,...his retreat, his disgrace, have brought innumerable evils on a whole nation. A common soldier, a child, a girl at the door of an inn, have changed the... | |
 | 1834 - 404 pages
...furnish grounds for 'a sure theory on the internal causes which necessarily affect the fortune of a state We have seen States of considerable duration, which...changed the face of fortune, and almost of nature.'* Amidst all these uncertainties, however, in our speculations on the moral and other causes here so... | |
 | 1834 - 896 pages
...have suddenly emerged; they have begun a new course, and opened a new reckoning, and even in the very depths of their calamity, and on the very ruins of...changed the face of fortune, and almost of nature." From thus laying down the general principles, he strikingly reverts to the case of the French monarchy.... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...as they have begun, and could hardly be said to ebb or flow. Some appear to have spent their vigour at their commencement. Some have blazed out in their...changed the face of fortune, and almost of nature."* We cannot close our notice of the admirable work of Mr. Prescott, without adverting to a few particulars... | |
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