 | 1859 - 406 páginas
...can we forget that image of desolation under which the noble old man figured his immeasurable grief. "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. The... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 638 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 are gone hefore me. They who should have heen to me as posterity ore in the place of ancestors. I owe to the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 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... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 886 páginas
...we forget that image of desolation, under which the noble old man figured his immeasurable grief. " 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 The... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 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 Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 620 páginas
...says this broken-hearted old man, " 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. The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered... | |
 | William Russell - 1861 - 448 páginas
...season, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honor in the world. — 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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 Stoughton - 1864 - 302 páginas
...hard season, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have...to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors." Poor Burke ! Writing to a friend, he said, " Mrs. Burke seeks tranquillity in prayer !" We hope he... | |
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I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. 
