 | Original - 1836 - 456 sivua
...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 - 1837 - 660 sivua
...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...he would have performed to me ; I owe it to him to shew that he was not descended, as the • Sir George Savile's Act called The A'uf/um Tcmput Act. Duke... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 sivua
...instinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who s'.ould have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as...dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) the act of piety, which he would have performed to me j. I owe it to him to show that he was not descended,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 sivua
...instinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who sl.ould have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as...dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) the net of piety, which he would have performed to me ; 1 owe it to him to show that he was not descended,... | |
 | Thomas Walker - 1835 - 464 sivua
...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... | |
 | John Thornton - 1839 - 136 sivua
...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 sivua
...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...memory) that act of piety which he would have performed for me. I owe to him to shew that he was not descended from an unworthy parent." After this tribute... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 sivua
...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...memory) that act of piety which he would have performed for me. I owe to him to shew that he was not descended from an unworthy parent." After this tribute... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 sivua
...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...he would have performed to me ; I owe it to him to shew that he was not descended, as the Duke of Bedford would have it, from an unworthy parent." The... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 sivua
...It is an instinct ; and under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. I live in an y $ be would have performed to me ; I owe it to him to show, that he was not descended, as the Duke of... | |
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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. 
