 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...greatness. All this has happened without any apparent previous change in the general circmnstances which had brought on their distress. the death of...changed the face of fortune, and almost of nature. CHARACTER OF JUNTOS. Where. Mr. Speaker, shall we look for the origin of this relaxation of the laws,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...little before their extinction. The meridian of others has been the most splendid. Others, and they are the greatest number, have fluctuated, and experienced...changed the face of fortune, and almost of nature. CHARACTER OF JUN1US. Where. Mr. Speaker, shall we look for the origin of this relaxation of the laws,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...little before their extinction. The meridian of others has been the most splendid. Others, and they are the greatest number, have fluctuated, and experienced...changed the face of fortune, and almost of nature. CHARACTER OF JUNIUS. Where, Mr. Speaker, shall we look for the origin of this relaxation of the laws,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 638 pages
...reckoning ; and even in the depths of their calamity, and on the very ruins of their country, lave ut such a course does not at first view appear a well-chosen...good preparative to manly and vigorous sentiment. ofien influenced by such causes, has commonly been the fate of monarchies of long duration. They have... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...little before their extinction. The meridian of others has been the most splendid. Others, and they are the greatest number, have fluctuated, and experienced...changed the face of fortune, and almost of nature. CHARACTER OF JUN1US. Wliere, Mr. Speaker, shall we look for the origin of this relaxation of the laws,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...and opened a new reckoning; and even in the depths of their calamity, and on the very ruins of th<;ir country, have laid the foundations of a towering and...changed the face of fortune, and almost of nature. 718 BURKE. [QEORQE nr. CHARACTER OF JUN1US. Where, Mr. Speaker, shall we look for the origin of this... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...and opened a new reckoning ; and even in the depths of their calamity, and on the very ruins of thuir country, have laid the foundations of a towering and...common soldier, a child, a girl at the door of an inn, bave changed the face of fortune, and almost of nature. CHARACTER OF Jl'VIUS. Where. Mr. Speaker, shall... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 524 pages
...and disaster, they have suddenly emerged. They have begun a new course and opened a new reckon ing, and even in the depths of their calamity and on the...causes, has commonly been the fate of monarchies of long duraj tion. They have their ebbs and their flows. This I has been eminently the fate of the monarchy... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 466 pages
...proportion between the apparent force of any moral causes we may assign, and their known operation .... A common soldier, a child, a girl at the door of an...changed the face of fortune, and almost of nature.' In that place, as here, he is considering the fact that ' in that its acme of human prosperity and... | |
 | George Crabb - 1882 - 876 pages
...hence, likewise, the propriety of the expressions, to put a good face on a thing, to show a bold front. A common soldier, a child, a girl, at the door of...changed the face of fortune, and almost of nature. BUIIKE. Where the deep trench in length extended lay, Compacted troops stand wedg'd in firm array,... | |
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