 | Readers - 1874 - 252 pages
...protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the good will of his countrymen ; if I have thus taken my part with the best of men in the...can shut the book — I might wish to read a page oi two more — but this is enough for my measure — I have not lived in vain. And now, gentlemen,... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - Latin language - 1903 - 456 pages
...have joined in reconciling kings to their subjects and subjects to their prince ; if I have thus taken part with the best of men in the best of their actions,...enough for my measure,— I have not lived in vain. Burkl. CCCCXLVIII. Defence of Thomas Hardy. Driven from the accusation upon the subject of pikes, and... | |
 | Helen Josephine Robins - English language - 1903 - 340 pages
...Saleve cliff, two thousand feet into the air." Prseterita. will of his countrymen. Thus I may have taken my part with the best of men in the best of their actions. If that is true I can shut the book. I might wish to read a page or two more, but this is enough for... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1884 - 892 pages
...over, and the long rest has come. Speaking of his own career, Gambetta might have said with Burke, " I can shut the book ; I might wish to read a page...enough for my measure ; I have not lived in vain." But we who sorrow at his death may wish that the book had not been closed so soon ; for Gambetta' s... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 688 pages
...protection to the laws of his country, and for bis comfort to the good-will of his countrymen ; if I have thus taken my part with the best of men in the...wish to read a page or two more, but this is enough, I have not lived in vain. " And now, gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to mafce... | |
 | United States - 1897 - 1170 pages
...protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the good will of his countrymen, if I have thus taken my part with the best of men in the...enough for my measure — I have not lived in vain." Can it, then, be true that Mr. Gladstone, in the words of Burke, has had his day ? He was much older... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1876 - 570 pages
...have joined in reconciling kings to their subjects, and subjects to their prince; if I have thus taken part with the best of men in the best of their actions,...enough for my measure,— I have not lived in vain. Translate, adding brief notes where necessary : — 1. ST. Non enim possum quin exclamem: euge euge,... | |
 | North American review - 1897 - 816 pages
...eloquence in which he concluded what proved, alas ! a vain appeal to the constituency of that day : "And now, gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to make up my account with yon, let me take to myself some degree of honest pride on the nature of the charges that are against... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1793 - 668 pages
...taken my part with the beft of men in the beft of their actions, I can fhut the book ; — I might wifh to• read a page or two more— but this is enough for my mcafure. — I have not lived in vain. And now, Gentlemen, on- this ferious day, wheni I come, as it... | |
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... possession, peace ; if I have joined in reconciling kings to their subjects, and subjects to their prince; if I have assisted to loosen the foreign holdings of the citizen, and taught him to look for his protection to the laws of his country, and... 
