 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 660 pages
...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 as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I... | |
 | Thomas Walker - 1835 - 464 pages
...for you. It will bring to your mind Burke's passage on his son — " I live in an inverted order — they, who should have been to me as posterity, are .in the place of ancestors." Cicero has a passage of still nearer resemblance. From tombs we will go to a different subject- the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 572 pages
...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... | |
 | John Thornton - Children - 1839 - 136 pages
...counsel. I live in an inverted order. Those who ought " to have succeeded me, are gone before me ; those 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 oaks which the hurricane has scattered about... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...and economical, lectures on his misery. 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. I... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...and economical, lectures on his misery. 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. I... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 pages
...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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...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 as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...and disease. It is an instinct ; and under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. obert I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety, which be would... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...and disease. It is an instinct ; and under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. branch, and hawthorn spray, That, fain to quit the...That fans my throbbing temples ! smiles the plain I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would... | |
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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. 
