... 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
| Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...have re-ptrrchafed the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. Me was made a public creature; and had no enjoyment whatever, but in the performance of fome duty. At this exigent moment, the lofs of a finimed man is not eafily fupplied. But a dripofer,... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...would have repurchased 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 wisdom it ' buhoves us not at... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 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...the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied. He was sometimes a little dispirited by the disposition which we thought shewn to depress him and set... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 536 pages
...the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a publick creature ; and had no enjoyment whatever, but in the...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 all... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 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...whatever, but in the performance of some duty. At this exir gent moment, the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied.. But a Disposer whose power we... | |
| Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 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...the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied. He was sometimes a little dispirited by the disposition which we thought shewn to depress him and set... | |
| England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...of merit iu me, or in any ancestry. He had in himself a silent, living spring of generous and manly action. Every day he lived he would have re -purchased...duty. At this exigent moment, the loss of a finished uian is not easily supplied." Then follows the passage which has been so often panegyrized, and which,... | |
| Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 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...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 all... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 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...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 all... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...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 whatever, but in the performance of sbme duty. At this exigent moment, the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied. But a Disposer... | |
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