 | Sir James Prior - 1891 - 648 sivua
...conclusion of the first letter he again ad'ds — " What I say, I mutt say at once. Whatever I write is iii its nature testamentary, it may have the weakness, but it has the sincerity of a dying declaration." When peace was eagerly sought, and as eagerlv anticipated perhaps because it was sought, he calmly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 450 sivua
...absurdity, calculate on six months of life. What I say, I must say at once. Whatever I write is in it's nature testamentary. It may have the weakness, but...world; but I hold myself to be still responsible for every thing that I have done whilst I continued on the place of action. If the rawest tyro in politicks... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 450 sivua
...absurdity, calculate on six months of life. What I say, I must say at once. Whatever I write is in it's nature testamentary. It may have the weakness, but...world ; but I hold myself to be still responsible for every thing that I have done whilst I continued on the place of action. If the rawest tyro in politicks... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1893 - 224 sivua
...with measure that he may speak it the longer. But as the same rules do not hold in all cases — what would be right for you, who may presume on a series...scene of the world ; but I hold myself to be still respon- • sible for everything that I have done whilst I continued on the place of action. If the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 1022 sivua
...with measure, that he may speak it the longer. But as the same rules do not hold in all cases, what would be right for you, who may presume on a series...to be still responsible for everything that I have dono whilst I continued on the place of action. If the rawest tyro in politics has been influenced... | |
 | George Angier Gordon - 1901 - 444 sivua
...its final words. It repeats the language of Burke with the added weight of its own impressiveness : " What I say I must say, at once. Whatever I write is...but it has the sincerity of a dying declaration." 1 The voice of an age speaking from the edge of the grave is charged with peculiar power. When a full... | |
 | George Angier Gordon - 1901 - 444 sivua
...its final words. It repeats the language of Burke with the added weight of its own impressiveness : " What I say I must say, at once. Whatever I write is...but it has the sincerity of a dying declaration." J The voice of an age speaking from the edge of the grave is charged with peculiar power. When a full... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1903 - 456 sivua
...presume on a series of years before you, would have no sense for me, who cannot, without absurdity, count on six months of life. What I say, I must say at once....for everything that I have done whilst I continued in the place of action. If the rawest tyro in politics has been influenced by the authority of my grey... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 sivua
...his Letters on a Regicide Peace (1796). Of this last prophetic vision of woes to come he remarked, "It may have the weakness, but it has the sincerity of a dying declaration." He died a year later (July 9, 1797). Burke's fame is that of a thinker and of a superb rhetorician.... | |
 | Nicholas K. Robinson, Edmund Burke - 1996 - 233 sivua
...delayed by serious illness in July, and Burke sensed he had little time to live: 'What I say I inuft say at once. Whatever I write is in its nature testamentary....but it has the sincerity of a dying declaration". 2 " By the time the work came to be published Lord Maimesbury had been despatched to Paris to negotiate... | |
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What I say, I must say at once. Whatever I write is in its nature testamentary. It may have the weakness but it has the sincerity of a dying declaration. 
