 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1880 - 958 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... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - 1881 - 296 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." This is majestic sorrow, mingled with uncomplaining trust. It is the moan of a great heart, like that... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1881 - 590 pages
...hurricane has shattered about me. 1 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. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors." Three... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - Protestants - 1882 - 500 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." This is majestic sorrow, mingled with uncomplaining trust. It is the moan of a great heart, like that... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - Protestants - 1882 - 520 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." This is majestic sorrow, mingled with uncomplaining trust. It is the moan of a great heart, like that... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 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... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...roots and lie prostrate on the earth. . . .1 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."... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...and honour in the world. ... I live in an inverted ord"!r. 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. ' The proposed peerage had fallen through, yet Pitt was desirous of rewarding after some fashion the... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...meet my enemies in the gate. I live in an inverted order. Thej7 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 lived only three years after this deflating blow. It was on the 9th of July,' 1797, that in the... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 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 lived only three years after this desolating blow. It was on the 9th of July, 1797, that in the... | |
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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. 
