 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...  The United States Democratic Review - Page 2701859Full view - About this book
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 486 pages
...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...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, 1... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 536 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Missions - 1841 - 712 pages
...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...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... | |
 | England - 1834 - 1048 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | John Evans - England - 1818 - 564 pages
...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...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 !" Gazing upon the spot where... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 484 pages
...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...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 ! There, and prostrate there, I... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 488 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 424 pages
...(whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me ; and I He 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, 1... | |
 | English letters - 1827 - 588 pages
...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...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." DEAR SIR, I AM exceedingly flattered... | |
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