 ... 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
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 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 ho lived he would have repurchased the bounty of the Crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he... | |
 | 1868 - 756 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...of the crown, and ten times more if ten times more be had received. He was made a public creature, and had no enjoyment whatever but in the performance... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...would not have been lor that successor to resort to any stagnant wasting reservoir of merit in mo. or in any ancestry. He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action. Kvery day he lived he would have repurchased the bounty of tho Crown, and ten times more, if ten times... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 pages
...not have been for that successor to resort to any stagnant wasting reservoir of merit in me or in my ancestry. He had in himself a salient living spring...enjoyment whatever but in the performance of some CELEBRATED PASSAGE IN THE BEDFORD LETTER. 289 duty. At this exigent moment the loss of a finished man... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 pages
...expression, when emphatic: "Destitute of every shadow of excuse, he shrunk abashed at the reproof." " Every day he lived, he would have repurchased the bounty of the * The falling inflection seems, notwithstanding the incomplete sense of a commencing series, to belong... | |
 | 1855 - 654 pages
...a monumental work, to which Burke's tribute to his son might have furnished a fitting motto : — " He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action ; he was made a public creature, and had no enjoyment whatever, but in the performance of some duty... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1856 - 766 pages
...in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment. He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action, lie bad no enjoyment whatever but in the performance of some duty.' In the words of the poet alluded... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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 oublic creaknow that it is forbidden to repel the attacks of unjust and inconsiderate men. The patience... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 638 pages
...disproportion. It would not have heen for that successor to resort to any stagnant wasting reservoir of merit in me, or in any ancestry. He had in himself a salient,...Every day he lived he would have re-purchased the hounty of tho crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a puhlic creature;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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 sprint:, of generous and manly action. Every day he lived he would have repurchased the bounty of the... | |
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