 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 - Page 24by University of Oxford - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...benevolence hereafter. 9. ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON. "A LETTEB TO A NOBLE LOED," PUBLISHED rs 1796.) 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... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1834 - 322 pages
...question the dispensation of the royal favor? • » * » " Had it pleased God to continue to me the hope of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of tin? age 1 live in, a sort of founder of.' a family; I should have left a son, who, in ail the points... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. 3. On the Death of his Son. 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 William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...circumstance that gives its theme and tone to the following passage : — Had it pleased God to continuo to me the hopes of succession, I should have been,...and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of a founder of a family ; I should have left a son, who, in all the points in which persmal merit can... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 pages
...the universe, out of which we cannot stir. 222, FROM "A LETTER TO A NOBLE LORD" (Duke of Bedford). 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 honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...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...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... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...leisure an improver of his native soil. —Letter to a Noble Lord. MR. BURKE'S ACCOUNT OF HIS SON. 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. BURKE'S LAMENTATION OVER HIS SON. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of...according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of tho age I live in, a sort of founder of a family ; I shoulu have left a son, who, in all the points... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...Noble Lord, Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, Letters on a Regicide Peace, etc. DEATH OP HIS SON. HAD it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of...according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age in which I live, a sort of founder of a family; I should have left a son, who, in all the points in... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...Capital! immobile aaxnm Accolet; imperiuroqae pater Komanus habebit.* MR. BURKE ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON. they shock every sentiment of honor ; they shock me...indignation. I call upon that right reverend bench, tho in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal... | |
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