 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
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behooves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness...might suggest,) a far better. The storm has gone over mo, and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...recovered his composure, he thus adverted to his loss in his celebrated " Letter to a Noble Lord :" " The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me. I arn stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...recovered his composure, he thus adverted to his loss in his celebrated "Letter to a Noble Lord :" " The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth... | |
 | The Free Church Magazine.january-December 1852.New Series.-VOL.I - 1852 - 588 pages
...the shadows of eternitt-. as they begin to fall fast and heavily round the close of his career :—' The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of those old otki that the late hurricane has scattered around me. I am stripped of all my honours—I an torn up... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...ix., line 448. to resist, and whose wisdom it behooves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The siorm has gone over me, and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 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...like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane hath scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am t0rn up by the roots, and lie prostrate... | |
 | Great Britain - 1853 - 888 pages
...which he gives way to his parental grief: " The storm has gone over me, and 1 lie like one of ti:ose old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about...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,... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1853 - 432 pages
...are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behooves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and, (whatever my querulous weakness...far better. — The storm has gone over me ; and I he like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 756 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...suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me, and 1 lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me — I am stripped... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Orators - 1853 - 972 pages
...of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors; 1 am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unleignedly recognize the divine justice, and in some degree submit to it. CHARACTER OF SIR JOSHUA... | |
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