 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...instinct is always in the right. 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. I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 pages
...bereaved old man utters the lament: "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." Shakspeare had anticipated the thought, and the expression of the thought, when he made old Lucretius... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 pages
...bereaved old man utters the lament: "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." Shakspeare had anticipated the thought, and the expression of the thought, when he made old Lucretius... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 222 pages
...Friendship generally. This essay is perlive 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. " * P. 6. haps more original than that upon ' Old Age,' but certainly is not so attractive to a modern... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 220 pages
...Friendship generally. This essay is perlive 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." * P. 6. haps more original than that upon ' Old Age,' but certainly is not so attractive to a modern... | |
 | 1872 - 556 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... | |
 | 1886 - 982 pages
...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." Because of the outward expressions of grief which were at times his, as when his son's favorite horse... | |
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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. 
