 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...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 511edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1896 - 338 pages
...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 un- 15 feignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it. But whilst I humble... | |
 | Edward Dowden - English literature - 1897 - 306 pages
...suffered with such resignation as was possible to the Divine will : " I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots and lie prostrate on the earth....Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it." In the same " Letter to a Noble Lord," in which these sentences occur, there is a yet more comfortable... | |
 | Literature - 1857 - 998 pages
...one of those oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth !" Beaconsfield was to him no more the delightful abode of cheerfulness and rural cares, but " an obscure... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 544 pages
...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots and lie prostrate on the earth....the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it. But whilst I humble myself before God, I do not know that it is forbidden to repel the attacks of unjust... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1898 - 142 pages
...of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. There, and pros- 30 trate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the divine justice, and in some degree submit to... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1898 - 568 pages
...Burke's words after the death of his son: "The storm has gone over me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots and lie prostrate on the earth. I am alone. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me."... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1899 - 202 pages
...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. . . . I am stripped of all my honors; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth, and prostrate there I must unfeignedly recognize the Divine Justice, and in some degree submit to it."... | |
 | Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 pages
...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 recognise the divine justice, and in some degree submit myself to it. But whilst I humble myself before... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 464 pages
...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. ... I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. ... I live in an inverted order. They who... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 1022 pages
...of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the...the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it. But whilst I humble myself before God, I do not know that it is forbidden to repel the attacks of unjust... | |
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