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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 honor in the world. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 297
by Edmund Burke - 1807
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...to read moral, political, and economical lectures on his misery. I am alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive...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...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 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...
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ...

Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...to read moral, political, and 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...
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Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his ...

Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. I greatly deceive myself if in this hard season of life I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world ;" and numberless others scattered through his subsequent writings. It was a matter of the least consideration...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...deponere, et toto animo, atq: omoi cur& $(\oao<t>uv. Sic, inquam, in ammo est: vellem ab initio." " Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this...all that is called fame and honour in the world." Such is the lamentation of Burke. " If this," says Lord Bacon, " be to be a Chancellor, I think if...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...words of Cicero. " Indeed, my Lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in tliis hard season I would g_ive a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and ' honour in the world," are the words of Burke. Milton in his tract on Education speaking of young men when they quit the universities....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 444 pages
...I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. I greatly deceive myself if in this hard season of life I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world." — ED. > I have no minute of any interview with Johnson tilt Thursday, May 15th, when I find what...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 446 pages
...I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. I greatly deceive myself if in this hard season of life I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world." — ED. 1 Let it be remembered by those who accuse Dr. Johnson of illiberality, that both were Scotchmen....
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...dunghill to read mora?, itical, and economical lectures on his m sery. I am alone. 1 have none to meet enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard ¿on I would give a perk of refuse wheat for nil that is called fame and honour in • world. This...
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My object in life, Issue 324

Frederic William Farrar - Christian life - 1833 - 142 pages
...of privacy and rest. " Indeed, my Lord," wrote Edmund Burke, " I doubt whether, in these hard times, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame in the world." The sole value of fame is use. " Sweet," says the poet — "Sweet were the days when...
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