 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 620 pages
...says this broken-hearted old man, " in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered... | |
 | William Russell - 1861 - 448 pages
...if, in this hard season, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honor in the world. — I live in an inverted order. They...to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation, (which ever must subsist in memory,) that act of piety, which he would... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...and disease. It is an instinct; and, under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have...to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1864 - 302 pages
...which he gives way to his parental grief : " The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about...resource for souls stripped of their dearest joys. In communion with the Father of spirits, and approaching him through that Son with whom he is ever... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...and disease. It is an instinct ; and, under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have...to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...and disease. It is an instinct ; and, under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have...to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) thnt act of piety, which he would... | |
 | 1866 - 298 pages
...economical lectures on his misery. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, I greatly deceive myself if, in this hard season,...to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation which ever must subsist in memory that act of piety which he would have... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1866 - 242 pages
...economical lectures on his misery. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, I greatly deceive myself if, in this hard season,...to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation which ever must subsist in memory that act of piety which he would have... | |
 | John Morley - 1867 - 338 pages
...to meet my enemies in the gate I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors."1 And if the votary of pictorial history thus finds an interesting and affecting subject... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...and disease. It is an instinct ; and, under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have...to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist (1) We are told that the grief of Burke for... | |
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I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. 
