 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 552 pages
...to us an awful lesson against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordinary ambition. The worthy gentleman ', who has been snatched from...us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. It has been usual for a candidate who declines, to take his leave by a letter to the sheriffs ; but... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 558 pages
...to us an awful lesson against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordinary ambition. The worthy gentleman \ who has been snatched from...us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. It has been usual for a candidate who declines, to take his leave by a letter to the sheriffs ; but... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...to us an awful lesson against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordinary ambition. The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us...of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...troubled about any of the objects of ordinary ambition." Well might Mr. Burke say, in taking Icavj, " The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us...of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us wltat s/tadmes... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...to us an awful lesson against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordinary ambition. The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us...of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows wo... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1853 - 972 pages
...snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires %vere as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly...what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.' It has been usual for a candidate who declines, to take his leave by a letter to the sheriffs ; but... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Orators - 1853 - 972 pages
...who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us iff/tat shadows we are, and wtiat shadows ue pursue .'" Through the influence of Lord Rockingham, Mr.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1855 - 632 pages
...against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordinary ambition. The worthy gentleman,1 who has been snatched from us at the moment of the...us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. It has been usual for a candidate who declines, to take his leave by a letter to the sheriffs ; but... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. Speech at Bristol on declining the Poll. 1780. The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us...as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, what shadows we pursue. SIR JAMES. MACKINTOSH. 1765-1832. Vindiciae Gatticae. (April, 1791.) The commons,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while nue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been,...mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live pursue.1 It has been usual for a candidate who declines, to take his leave by a letter to the sheriffs... | |
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Gentlemen, the melancholy event of yesterday reads to us an awful lesson against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordinary ambition. The worthy gentleman * who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle... 
