 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...  Examination Papers: Moderations - الصفحة 24بواسطة University of Oxford - 1879عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...heavy domestic calamity that had overshadowed his later years : — " Had it pleased God," he says, " to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should...all the points in which personal merit can be viewed — in science, in erudition, in honour, in genius, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 954
...woe ; And thus bright spirits mingle here, Such ties are formed below. BURKE ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON. it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession,...the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 658
...doubted that several of his forefathers in that long series have degenerated into honor and virtue. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, 1 should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...succeed him. He might be the propagator of the stock of honour, or the root of it, as he thought proper. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of...according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age 1 live in, a sort of founder of a family : I should have left a son, who, in all the points in which... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...degenerated into honor and virtue. «' snould nave been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity ot the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family :...the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...the protection, of the British crown. EDMCMI BrRKR. BURKE'S ACCOUNT OF HIS SON. Had it pleased God t* continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have...son, who, in all the points in which personal merit ctm be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honour, in generosity, in Immunity,... | |
 | William Charteris Macpherson - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...pleased God to continue to me the hopes of a succession," he wrote, in his "Letter to a Noble Lord," "I should have been according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of a founder of a family." If we turn for an opinion from Professor Bryce to Lord Nelson, who lived in... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 704
...succeed him. He might be the propagator of the stock of honour, or the root of it, as he thought proper. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of...the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honour, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 670
...succeed him. He might be the propagator of the stock of honour, or the root of it, as he thought proper. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of...the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honour, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal... | |
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