 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 páginas
...followed me." In his famous letter to the Duke of Bedford, the bereaved old man utters the lament: "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."... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 páginas
...followed me." In his famous letter to the Duke of Bedford, the bereaved old man utters the lament: "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."... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 222 páginas
...Friendship generally. This essay is perlive 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. " * P. 6. haps more original than that upon ' Old Age,' but certainly is not so attractive to a modern... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 220 páginas
...Friendship generally. This essay is perlive 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." * P. 6. haps more original than that upon ' Old Age,' but certainly is not so attractive to a modern... | |
 | 1872 - 556 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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 páginas
...live," says this brokenhearted 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... | |
 | 1886 - 982 páginas
...roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. 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." Because... | |
 | David Thomas - 1873 - 780 páginas
...perform these Bad duties for children." Edmund Burko, in his famous letter to the Duke of Bedford, said: "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."... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 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 in the place of posterity, are in the place of... | |
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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. 
