 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Ibid. Vol. ii. /. 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. S fetch at Bristol on Declining the Poll^ Vol. \\. p. 429. 1 At the... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...about any of the objects of ordinary ambition." Well might Mr. Burke say, in taking leave, " The worthy gentleman 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 what shadows... | |
 | 1869 - 468 pages
...following day, in this feeling mauner, paid tribute to his memory : "The worthy gentleman who has bcen snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of tte contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes M eager as ours, has feelingly told nt what... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 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 of the election, and in the middlf- of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...grieve his heart ; Come like SRADOÏVS, so depart. — Ibid., Macbeth, act iv. so. 1. — 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. —EDMUND BORKE, Speech at Brietol on Declining the Poll. Shaft. —... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...awful lesson against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordinary ambition. The worthy in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone...manhood. When I contemplate these things — when while his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...who has been snatched from us at the moment ot the election, and in the middle of the contest, while ash of the Pope, to be by him determined, and made are, and what shadows we pursue.* It has been usual for a candidate who declines, to take his leave... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...who has been snatched from us at tto 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 what shadows we are, what shadows we pursue. Speech at Bristol on declining the Pott, 1780. 184. William Cowper, 1731-1800.... | |
 | E. Goodman Holden - American fiction - 1880 - 382 pages
...concerning "the worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours." Much of Carroll's hope and ambition would be buried with the coffin of his chief, and with bowed head... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...unsucvessful canvass, Burke alluded to the sudden death of one of the candidates, Mr. Coombe: "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." Wordsworth said, " We all laugh at pursuing a shadow, though the... | |
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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. 
