 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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 ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 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... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 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... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1846 - 420 pages
...season, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world. — 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... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...political, and economical lectures on his misery. I am alone, 1 have none to meet my enemies in the gate. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me, have gone before me. They who should have been to me a posterity, are in the place of ancestors. I... | |
 | Thomas Walker - Great Britain - 1850 - 334 pages
...you. It will bring to your mind Burke's [>a5sage on his son:—" I live in an inverted order—they, who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors." C icero has a passage of still nearer resemblance. From tombs we will go to a different subject—the... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 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 hefore me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 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 arc gone before me; they who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors. I... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 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 m': are gone before me ; they who should have been to me as posterity are in the \.\iui. of ancestors.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1853 - 888 pages
...hard season, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have...to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors." Poor Burke! Writing to a friend, he said, "Mrs. Burke seeks tranquillity in prayer!" We hope he did... | |
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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. 
