 ... would have wanted all plausibility in his attack upon that provision which belonged more to mine than to me. He would soon have supplied every deficiency, and symmetrized every disproportion. It would not have been for that successor to resort to...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 313by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 206 pages
...wafting refervoir of merit in me, or in any anceftry. He had in himfelf a falient, living *Pr'ng» of generous and manly action. Every day he lived he would have re-purchafed the V bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...wafting refervoir of merit i'.i me, or in any anceRry. He had in himfelf a lalic-nt, living fpring, of generous and manly action. Every day he lived he would have re-ptrrchafed the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. Me was... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...disproportion. It would not have been for that successor to resort to any stagnant wasting reservoir of merit in me, or in any ancestry. He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly aclion. Every day he lived he would have repurchased the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 446 pages
...wafting refervoir of merit in me, or in any anceftry. He had in himfelf a • falient, living fpring, of generous and manly action. Every day he lived he would have re-purehafed the bounty of the Crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 540 pages
...disproportion. It would not have been for that successor to resort to any stagnant wasting reservoir of merit in me, or in any ancestry. He had in himself a salient,...more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a publick creature ; and had no enjoyment whatever, but in the performance of some duty. At this exigent... | |
 | 1834 - 1046 pages
...to auy stagnant, wasting reservoir of merit iu me, or in any ancestry. He had in himself a silent, living spring of generous and manly action. Every day he lived he would have re -purchased the bounty of the Crown, and ten times more. He was made a public creature, and had no... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...disproportion. It would not have been for that successor to resort to any stagnant wasting reservoir of merit in me, or in any ancestry. He had in himself a salient,...living spring, of generous and manly action. Every day ht lived he would have re- purchased the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more... | |
 | 1822 - 502 pages
...of practitioners. Of him it may be said, in the language of Burke, that " he was a public creature ; he had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action ;" and the longer (as it seems to human apprehension) life had been indulged to him, the greater would... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 526 pages
...disproportion. It would not have been for that successor to resort to any stagnant wasting reservoir of merit in me, or in any ancestry. He had in himself a salient,...spring, of generous and manly action. Every day he * At si non aliam venture fnta Neroni, &c. lived he would have re-purchased the bounty of the crown,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pages
...disproportion. It would not have been for that successor to resort to any stagnant wasting reservoir of merit in me, or in any ancestry He had in himself a salient,...he had received. He was made a public creature; and 21 had no enjoyment whatever, but in the performance of some duty. At this exigent moment, the loss... | |
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