 The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5261834Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 446 pages
...myself, or for my family, (a/as.' / have none,) I have nothing to hope or to fear in this world." " The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of...torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. I greatly deceive myself if in this hard season... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 444 pages
...myself, or for my family, (a/as .' I have none,) I have nothing to hope or to fear in this world." " The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of those old oats which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours. I am torn up... | |
 | Henry Ellis - Celebrities - 1827 - 578 pages
...affliction that Mr. Burke alludes in his Letter to the Duke of Bedford, published Feb. 24th. 1796. " The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of...stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, ar.d lie prostrate on the earth." DEAU SIB, I AM exceedingly flattered by the compassionate sentiments... | |
 | Henry Ellis - English letters - 1827 - 580 pages
...affliction that Mr. Burke alludes in his Letter to the Duke of Bedford, published Feb. 24ih. 1796. " The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old Oaks which the late hurricane has seattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate... | |
 | sir Henry Ellis - Great Britain - 1827 - 768 pages
...affliction that Mr. Burke alludes in his Letter to the Duke of Bedford, published Feb. 24lh. 1796. " The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old Oaks which the late hurricara' has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and, whatever my querulous weakness...prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the divine justice, and hi some degree submit to it. But whilst I humble... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Authorship - 1828 - 588 pages
...able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in a different manner, and, (whatever my querulous weakness might...torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. But there, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the divine justice, and in some degree... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute ; has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The atorm has gone over me; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...manner, and— whatever uernlous weakness might suggest — л far better. The storm has gone over me, from particular persons, tliey made it not their business to describe ; they r tj l ;i stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the h ! There,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 662 pages
...are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in il most unfeignedly recognise the divine justice, and in some degree submit to it. But whilst I humble... | |
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