 ... 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 he lived, he would have repurchased the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5261834Full view - About this book
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 516 pages
...a salient, living spring of generous and manly action. Every day he lived he would have repurchased the bounty of the Crown, and ten times more. He was...the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied. " But, a Disposer, whose power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 518 pages
...a salient, living spring of generous and manly action. Every day he lived he would have repurchased the bounty of the Crown, and ten times more. He was...the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied. " But, a Disposer, whose power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 pages
...wrtrfiss^a/erf=unwasted. 1. 27. as a pleasure he was to enjoy, Sec. Burke says the same of his own son. ' He was made a public creature ; and had no enjoyment whatever, but in the performance of some duty.' (Letter to a Noble Lord.) ' No man,' says South, ' ever was, or can be, considerable in any art or... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1862 - 562 pages
...are in a condition to feel the full force of the words of Burke, speaking of the death of his son : " At this exigent moment, the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied." In giving expression to our sense of his worth, I shall not undertake to narrate the events of his... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...times more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a public creature, and had no en"ynient d ! r% \ ߌr nr 3! "Nz bR <wRG ܪU:U U a...t0EZM &m j@ 4 B k`. Xԟ:J H R v q yݝ V }* =K But a Disposer whose power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all... | |
 | Thucydides - 1881 - 656 pages
...recurs, a little exaggerated, in the ' Letter to a Noble Lord.' Speaking of his own son, Burke says, ' He was made a public creature ; and had no enjoyment whatever, but in the performance of some duty.' Cp. also Shakespeare, Macbeth, i. 4, ' The rest is labour, which is not used for you :' Goethe, Pandora... | |
 | Thucydides - 1881 - 650 pages
...recurs, a little exaggerated, in the ' Letter to a Noble Lord.' Speaking of his own son, Burke says, ' He was made a public creature ; and had no enjoyment whatever, but in the performance of some duty.' Op, also Shakespeare, Macbeth, i. 4, ' The rest is labour, which is not used for you :' Goethe, Pandora... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pages
...would have repurchased the bounty of the Crown, and ten times more. He was made a public creature, had no enjoyment whatever but in the performance of...exigent moment, the loss of a finished man is not so easily supplied. " But a Disposer, whose power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...would have purchased the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a public creature, and had no enjoyment...the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied. But a Disposer, whose power we are little able to resist, and whose wis~ dom it behooves us not at... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1888 - 490 pages
...would have re-purchased the bounty of the Crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a public creature, and had no enjoyment...of some duty. At this exigent moment the loss of a iinished man is not easily supplied. But a Disposer whose power we are little able to resist, and whose... | |
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