| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...Of all the calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself...it with decorum; these details are of a species of horrour so nauseous and disgusting ; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...Of all the calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing more than he is : but J find myself unable to manage it with decorum; these details are of a species of horrour so nauseous... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...is : but I find myself unable to manage it with decorum ; these details are of a species of horrour so nauseous and disgusting ; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they are so humiliating to human nature itself, that, on better thoughts, I find it more adviseable to throw... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...hunger. Of all the calamities which beset and waylay tinlife of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself...it with decorum; these details are of a species of lion our so nauseous and disgusting; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers; they... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...Of alt the calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself...decorum ; these details are of a species of horror sonauseous and disgusting ; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to'the hearers; they are so... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1815 - 746 pages
...Of ill the calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself...nothing more than he is : but I find myself unable ta manage it with decorum ; these details areof a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting ; they... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1821 - 536 pages
...Of all the calamities, which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself...degrading to the sufferers, and to the hearers ; they are so humiliating to human nature itself, that on better thoughts, I find it more adviseable to throw... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1821 - 542 pages
...Of all the calamities, which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing more than he is ; but 1 find myself unable to manage it with decorum : these details are of a species of horror so nauseous... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1823 - 472 pages
...Of all the calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself...degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they are so humiliating to human nature itself, that, on better thoughts, I find it more advisable to throw... | |
| John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...Of all the calamities which beset and waylay; the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and• is that wherein the proudest of us all feels...degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they are so humiliating to human nature itself, that, on better thoughts, I find it more advisable to throw... | |
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