 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 536 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 evermust subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 540 pages
...direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order.' They who ought F to have succeeded me are gone before me. They who...to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors* I owe to the dearest relation (which evermust subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...disease. It is an instinct ; and under the direction of reason, in-. stinct 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... | |
 | Missions - 1858 - 778 pages
...son, — one of the most painful of literary offices, that reminds us of Burke's touching words — "I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded ше are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in theplace of ancestors."... | |
 | England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...enemies in the gate. • * * I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have eucceeded 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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...disease. It is an instinct ; and under the direction of reason, instinct is always- in the right. I lived in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded...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 Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 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 succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I... | |
 | 1823 - 836 pages
...on Old jige. A translation of the former sentence, is supplied by the language of Mr. Burke (belter on the Duke of Bedford, &c., p. 22) : " I live in...they who ought to have succeeded me, are gone before шс : they who should have been to nie as posterity, are in the place of ancestors, &c." Of the remainder... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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 succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 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 succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as ,posterity are in the place of ancestors. I... | |
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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. 
