 | James Fawckner Nicholls, John Taylor - Bristol (England) - 1882 - 378 pages
...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...eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are and what shadows we pursue. It has been usual for a candidate who declines, to take his leave by... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1882 - 454 pages
...constitution of an accomplished and successful lawyer. Snatched from us in the middle of the conflict of life, whilst his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours; his untimely departure reminds us again, even as we are constantly reminded, ' that life's but a walking... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Vol. ii. p. 169. The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment...eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. Sjieech at Bristol on Declining the Poll. Vol. ii. p. 429. They made... | |
 | 1888 - 590 pages
...midst of a hot and exciting chase for honor and promotion, said, " He who has been snatched from us in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were...eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are and what shadows .we pursue." A Costly Burial. There is a tomb in the famous Milan Cathedral, in... | |
 | English literature - 1887 - 958 pages
...objects of ordinary ambition. The worthy gentleman, Mr. Coombe, the candidate who has died suddenly, and who has been snatched from us at the moment of the...election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst hia desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 109. The worthy gentleman who has heen snatched from ns at the moment of the election, and in the middle of...his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as onrs, has feelingly told ns what shadows we are, and what shadows we pnrsne. Speech at Bristol on Declining... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1892 - 598 pages
...troubled about any of the objects of ordinary ambition. The worthy gentleman,1 *ho has been snatched irom us at the moment of the election, and in the middle...eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. It has been usual for a candidate who declines, to take hi* leave... | |
 | John Latimer - Bristol (England) - 1893 - 568 pages
...on the vanity of human passions. The fate of the lamented gentleman, he said, snatched away " while his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are and what shadows we pursue." The poll continued open for nine days, although the issue was never... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...gay. — Charron. The uncertainty of events disturbs the purest enjoyments. — De Ltoii. The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment...us what shadows we arc, and what shadows we pursue. — Burke. Ye gods, ready to grant the highest prosperity, and slow to preserve it ! — Lucan. In... | |
 | R. McWilliam - English literature - 1897 - 176 pages
...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...eager, as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. Burke remained the intimate and attached friend of Johnson and Goldsmith,... | |
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The worthy gentleman * who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are and what shadows we pursue. 
