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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. "
The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature - Page 472
1823
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The Original, by T. Walker

William Augustus Guy - 1875 - 430 pages
...for you. It will bring to your mind Burke's passage on his son: — " Hive in an inverted order — they, who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors." Cicero has a passage of still nearer resemblance. From tombs we will go to a different subject —...
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Engelske forfattere i udvalg. med biografiske indeldminger og oplysende ...

Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 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...
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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1877 - 524 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...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 28; Volume 91

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1878 - 832 pages
...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 ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors." ....
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Homiletical Commentary on the Minor Prophets, Volume 221

James Wolfendale - Bible - 1879 - 762 pages
...our life. We mourn like Uurkc at the loss of his only ?"ii : " They who should have succeeded mo have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the- place of ancestors." " Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them ; for they shall go into captivity."...
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Burke

John Morley - Great Britain - 1879 - 236 pages
...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 as posterity, are in the place of ancestors." Burke only lived three years after this desolating blow. The arrangements for a peerage, as a matter...
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Burke

John Morley - Great Britain - 1879 - 236 pages
...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 ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors."...
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Burke

John Morley - 1879 - 256 pages
...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 ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors."...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 30

Henry Barnard - Education - 1880 - 980 pages
...and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it 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 that act of piety which he would have performed to me." The mournful...
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