 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 514 pagina’s
...alludes to the heavy affliction that had darkened his later years : — " Had it pleased God," he says, " to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should...according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the uge I live in, a sort of founder of a family. I should have left a son who, in all the points in which... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1878 - 50 pagina’s
...and promise. He was less than thirty-four years of age when he died ; and yet I venture to say that "in all the points in which personal merit can be viewed, — in science, in erudition, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every liberal accomplishment,"... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1879 - 584 pagina’s
...Ille itibe suboat, tuque hie spectator ab alta Turre sede. III. FOR LATIN PROSE. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should...the points in which personal merit can be viewed, would not have shown himself inferior to the Duke, or to any of those whom he traces in his line. But... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pagina’s
...aptness of the children be extraordinary, then it is good not to cross it. LORD BACON. Had it pleased God nce by the tail. POPE : DvHCtttd, Book II. Those authors whose accordin; to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family :... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pagina’s
...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...merit can be viewed — in science, in erudition, in honour, in genius, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every liberal accomplishment, would... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pagina’s
...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, I should...be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment, and every liberal accomplishment,... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1884 - 140 pagina’s
...harshest despotism would be more successful, and perhaps in the end more humane. CLXX. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should...the points in which personal merit can be viewed, would not have shown himself inferior to the Duke, or to any of those whom he traces in his line. But... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1885 - 388 pagina’s
...readily allow that all this comes under the proverb, Sus Minervam. EXERCISE CCCXCVII. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should...the points in which personal merit can be viewed, would not have shown himself inferior to the Duke, or to any of those whom he traces in his line. But... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1888 - 658 pagina’s
...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...be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every liberal accomplishment,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 592 pagina’s
...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 succession, I should...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... | |
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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... 
