 | Joseph O'Connor - 1911 - 360 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... | |
 | John MacCunn - Philosophy - 1913 - 290 pages
...course of an election contest : ' the melancholy event of yesterday,' so runs Burke's comment, '. . . has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.' An enemy attacks his well-earned pension, and evokes that Letter to a Noble Lord (1776) which Lord... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1914 - 464 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." to rejoice that the services of this truly great man were restored to the nation. The concourse of... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1914 - 502 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...the contest, whilst his desires were as warm, and bis hopes as eager, as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue."... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 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...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 Earle Uhler - English language - 1926 - 200 pages
...from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. 33. 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... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - Natural law - 1958 - 292 pages
..."against being too much troubled about the objects of ordinary ambition." Coombe was snatched away "whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours," and his fate "has feelingly told us what shadows we are and what shadows we pursue."2 The wheel of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 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 - History - 2008 - 602 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...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... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 488 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...us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. Edmund Burke. LXXXVII. THE POWER OF ENGLAND. THE resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing... | |
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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... 
