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" Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. "
Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 408
1876
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Reflections on the Revolution in France,: And on the Proceedings in Certain ...

Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 536 pages
...miferable of prifons. It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himfelf. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of diflrefs touching upon his heart, but by the fhowy refemblance of...
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Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French ...

Thomas Paine - France - 1791 - 358 pages
...miferable of prifons. It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himfelf. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of diftrefs touching upon his heart, but by the fhowy refemblance of...
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MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE

W. T. Sherwin - 1819 - 306 pages
...miserable of prisons. It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the shewy resemblance of it striking...
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The Life of Thomas Paine, Author of "Common Sense", "Rights of Man", "Age of ...

Gilbert Vale - Political scientists - 1841 - 242 pages
...miserable of prisons. It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 9

Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...miserable of prisons. It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the realily of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking...
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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 4

Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1846 - 606 pages
...miserable of prisons. It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Mature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is act affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking...
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The French Revolution, Volumes 1-2

Charles MacFarlane - France - 1844 - 684 pages
...miserable of prisons. It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking...
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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 4

Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1846 - 598 pages
...miserable of prisons. It is painful to bchold tt man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1888 - 662 pages
...miserable of prisons. It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1888 - 558 pages
...miserable of prisons. It is painful to behold a man employing bis talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking...
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