 | William Dowling - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 412 pages
...my Lord." Burke rested his claims on far higher grounds. " I was not," said he, on one occasion, " swaddled, rocked, and dandled into a legislator. Nitor in adversum is the motto for a man like me." Having been returned, at the general election in 1768, for Wendover, Burke resolved on fixing his home... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 414 pages
...own striking style: " I was not* swaddled, rocked, and dandled into a " legislator. NITOR IN ADTERSUM is the motto for a man " like me." But in July 1765...the fortunes of Burke were retrieved. The Marquis of Eockingham on becoming First Lord of the Treasury was induced, from the recommendation of several friends,... | |
 | John Joseph Halcombe - 1859 - 232 pages
...fortune attributed to anything rather than their • " I was not swaddled, and dandled, and rocked into a legislator; nitor in adversum is the motto for a man like me."— BURKE'8 Corresponrfence. own exertions, so it may gratify a petty vanity in some men to conceal the... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 pages
...profited so largely by similar means. " I was not," he writes, " like his Grace of Bedford, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator. Nitor in adversum is the motto for a man like me. ... I know not how it has happened, but it really seems that, whilst his Grace was meditating his wellconsidered... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Recreations - Conduct of life - 1861 - 474 pages
...grandfather shaved for a penny!' It was not vapouring when Burke wrote, ' I was not rocked, and swaddled, and dandled into a legislator: Nitor in adversum is the motto for a man like me!' It was not vapouring when Milton wrote that he had in himself a conviction that ' by labour and intent... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Clergy - 1861 - 468 pages
...grandfather shaved for a penny!' It was not vapouring when Burke wrote, ' I was not rocked, and swaddled, and dandled into a legislator: Nitor in adversum is the motto for a man like me!' It was not vapouring when Milton wrote that he had in himself a conviction that ' by labour and intent... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...unpolluted with the slime of their filthy offal.* I was not, like his grace of Bedford, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator ; " Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Clergy - 1866 - 436 pages
...grandfather shaved for a penny ! ' It was not vapouring when Burke wrote, ' I was not rocked, and swaddled, and dandled into a legislator : Nitor in adversum is the motto for a man like me !' It was not vapouring when Milton wrote that he had in himself a conviction that ' by labour and... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...intention. In that, surely, they are not mistaken. I was not, like his Grace of Bedford, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator : " Nitor in adversum " is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favor... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 440 pages
...without being reminded of Mr. Burke's celebrated letter, in which he says, " I was not swaddled and rocked and dandled into a legislator : Nitor in adversum, is the motto for a man like me." * The * Works. 8vo edition. Vol. viii., 28. See, too, a striking remark in one of the volumes just... | |
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I was not, like his Grace of Bedford, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator; " Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and... 
