 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...  Select Works - Sivu lxiitekijä(t) Edmund Burke - 1892Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 sivua
...has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 620 sivua
...me have gone before me. They 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 old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots." His increased irritability is... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 sivua
...has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane hath scattered j.bout me. I am stripped of all my honors : I am torn up by the rooru, and lie prostrate... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1864 - 302 sivua
...pathetic passages in Burke's letter to a noble lord, in which he gives way to his parental grief : " 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.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 sivua
...has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane hath scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours : I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 sivua
...has ordained ii in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane hath scattered pbout me. I am stripped of all my honors : I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1866 - 242 sivua
...less exposed to the barbarous attacks of a noble calumniator, he thus deplores his bereavement : — " 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 torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. There, and prostrate there, I... | |
 | 1866 - 298 sivua
...less exposed to the barbarous attacks of a noble calumniator, he thus deplores his bereavement : — " 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 torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. There, and prostrate there, I... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1866 - 528 sivua
...has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. 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 honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth.... | |
 | James Locke Batchelder - 1866 - 64 sivua
...the language he ufes on the occafion. He fpeaks of "the forrows of a defolate old man." "The ftorm has gone over me, and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has fcattered about me. I am ftripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots and lie proftrate on... | |
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