 Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family : I should have left a son, who, in all the points in which personal merit...  A Practical System of Rhetoric - Page 259by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1852 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1866 - 528 pages
...stock of honor, or the root of it, as he thought proper. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my...humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every liberal accomplishment, would not have shown himself inferior to the Duke of Bedford, or to any of those whom... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...SON. "A LETTEB TO A NOBLE LOED," PUBLISHED rs 1796.) HAD it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my...in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honour, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment, would... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 516 pages
...stock of honor, or the root of it, as he thought proper. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my...humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every liberal accomplishment, would not have shown himself inferior to the Duke of Bedford, or to any of those whom... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...and antiquated fashion. 3. On the Death of his Son. HAD it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my...in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honour, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment, would... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...gives its theme and tone to the following passage : — Had it pleased God to continuo to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my...and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of a founder of a family ; I should have left a son, who, in all the points in which persmal merit can... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 pages
...stir. FROM "A LETTER TO A NOBLE LORD" (Duke of Bedford). Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my...•humanity, .in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment, would not have shown himself inferior to the Duke of Bedford, or to any of those to... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...long series have degenerated into honor and virtue. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my...humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every liberal accomplishment, would not have shown himself inferior to the Duke of Bedford, or to any of those whom... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pages
...—Letter to a Noble Lord. MR. BURKE'S ACCOUNT OF HIS SON. HAD it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my...in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honour, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment, would... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...insects of the hour. BURKE'S LAMENTATION OVER HIS SON. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of tho age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; I shoulu have left a son, who, in all the points... | |
 | 1873 - 824 pages
...justify. In Edmund Burke's pathetic reference to the death of his son, after speaking of his superiority " in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in...humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every liberal accomplishment," he says, " he had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action."... | |
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