 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 206 pages
...gate. Indeed, my Lord, I greatly deceive myfelf, if in this hard feafon I would give a peck of refufe wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury ; it is a privilege ; it is an mdulgence for thofe... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 440 pages
...gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myfelf, if in this hard feafon I would give a peck of refufe wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury; it is a privilege: it is an indulgence for thofe... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 446 pages
...gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myfelf, if in this hard feafon I would give 3 peck of refufe wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury; it is a privilege: it is an indulgence for thofe... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 536 pages
...economical lectures on his misery. I am alone. I have none to meet siy enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I...for all that is called fame and honour in the world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury ; it is a privilege : it is an indulgence for those... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...economical lectures on his misery. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I...for all that is called fame and honour in the world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury ; it is a privilege ; it is an indulgence for those... | |
 | 1858 - 778 pages
...son, — one of the most painful of literary offices, that reminds us of Burke's touching words — "I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded ше are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in theplace of ancestors."... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pages
...economical lectures on his misery. I am alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I...refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in this world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury; it is a privilege ; it is an indulgence... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...misery. 1 am alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly de«eive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck...refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in this world. This is the appttite but of a few. It is a luxury ; it is a privilege ; it is an indulgence... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...ceconomica! lectures on his misery. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I, would give a ffck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world. This is the appetite but... | |
 | 1823 - 836 pages
...sentence, is supplied by the language of Mr. Burke (belter on the Duke of Bedford, &c., p. 22) : " I live in an inverted order ; they who ought to have succeeded me, are gone before шс : they who should have been to nie as posterity, are in the place of ancestors, &c." Of the remainder... | |
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I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if, in this hard season, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world. 
