| Edmund Burke - 1837 - 660 páginas
...and disease. It is an instinct ; and under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I... | |
| Thomas Walker - 1835 - 464 páginas
...for you. It will bring to your mind Burke's passage on his son — " I live in an inverted order — they, who should have been to me as posterity, are .in the place of ancestors." Cicero has a passage of still nearer resemblance. From tombs we will go to a different subject- the... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1839 - 572 páginas
...and disease. It is an instinct ; and under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have...to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would... | |
| John Thornton - 1839 - 136 páginas
...counsel. I live in an inverted order. Those who ought " to have succeeded me, are gone before me ; those who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors. The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of those oaks which the hurricane has scattered about... | |
| George Croly - 1840 - 300 páginas
...and economical, lectures on his misery. I am alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. * * * I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors. I... | |
| George Croly - 1840 - 612 páginas
...and economical, lectures on his misery. I am alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. * * * I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors. I... | |
| Seven ages - 1842 - 154 páginas
...and disease. It is an instinct; and , under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have...to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 páginas
...and disease. It is an instinct : and, under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...and disease. It is an instinct ; and under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. obert I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety, which be would... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...and disease. It is an instinct ; and under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. branch, and hawthorn spray, That, fain to quit the...That fans my throbbing temples ! smiles the plain I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would... | |
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