 The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly...  Select Works - Seite lxiivon Edmund Burke - 1892Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 Seiten
...has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might Suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 536 Seiten
...has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 Seiten
...has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth... | |
 | 1841 - 712 Seiten
...son, and the cheerless gloom which in consequence darkened the evening of his life, he exclaims, " The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth.... | |
 | 1834 - 1046 Seiten
...has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me, and I lie, like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours — I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth.... | |
 | John Evans - 1818 - 564 Seiten
...event in language indicative of that grief which he felt on the occasion : — " The storm (says he) has gone over me, and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ! I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrated on the earth... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 Seiten
...has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honoursi I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 Seiten
...has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth... | |
 | 1827 - 586 Seiten
...affliction that Mr. Burke alludes in his Letter to the Duke of Bedford, published Feb. 24*. 1796. " The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of...those old Oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth."... | |
 | 1824 - 602 Seiten
...addressed to a noble Lord, in answer to the Duke of Bedford's attack upon his pension, he says : • The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...* old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I * am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up bv the roots, ' and lie prostrate on the... | |
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