 ... 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 had received.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5141834Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...It would not have been for that successor to resort to auy stagnant, wasting reservoir of merit iu me, or in any ancestry. He had in himself a silent,...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 426 pages
...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 whose power we arc little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received. He was made a public creature; and 21 had no enjoyment whatever, but in the performance...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... | |
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