 Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family: I should have left a son who, in all the points in which personal merit...  The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke - Page 271by Edmund Burke - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...insects of the hour. BURKE'S LAMENTATION OVER ms SON. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity,...in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment, would... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...uniform and distinguished. ACCOUNT OF HIS SON'S DEATH. Hud it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity,...sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment, would not have shown himself inferior to the Duke of Bedford, or any of those whom he traces in his line. His Grace... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...acceptance of a pension, — in this touching lament : " Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity,...honour, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal attempt, in every liberal accomplishment, would not have shown himself inferior to the Duke of Bedford,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 638 pages
...he thought proper. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have heen according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of...who, in all the points in which personal merit can he viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honour, in generosity, in humanity, in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1861 - 568 pages
...honour, or the root ni it, as he thought proper. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the asre 1 live in, a sort of founder of a family: I should have left a son, who, in all the points in'... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...all property, and thence to universal desolation. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity...and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of a founder of a family : I should have left a son, who, in all the points in which personal merit can... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...insects of the hour. BURKE'B LAMENTATION OVER HIS SON. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity,...in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment, would... | |
 | William Russell - 1861 - 448 pages
...from Burke's Allusion to the Death of his Son. " Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity...in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment, would... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...FROM ' A LETTER TO A NOBLE LORD ' (Duke of Bedford). Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity,...sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment, would not have shown himself inferior to the Duke, of Bedford, or to any of those to whom he traces in his line. His... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...insects of the hour. BURKE'S LAMENTATION OVER HIS so.v. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity,...of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; 1 should have left a son, who, in all the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science,... | |
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