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Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr ... - Page 26
edited by - 1842 - 529 pages
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within...He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere, et quae sit poterit cognoscere virtus — Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing...
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The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of ..., Volume 1

Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...my friends, let us YOUNG men drink to the repose of the old gentleman that has left us.' A34 member all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of...things. He was then old enough, acta parentum jam leg ere, et qua sit, potent cognoscere -virtus. Suppose, Sir, that the Angel of this auspicious youth,...
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The Columbian Phenix and Boston Review: Containing Useful ..., Volume 1

1800 - 458 pages
...this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national profperity has happened within the fhort period of the life of man. It has happened within Sixty-eight years. There are thofe alive whofe memory .might touch the two extremities. For inftance, my Lord Bathurft might remember...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 1

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1804 - 692 pages
...n- lie fi\ Kit h*»r*i reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within tile' short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight yean. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my lord Bathurst...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 1

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1804 - 694 pages
...Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our nations! prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. Ic has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities....
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within...remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1 704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough aeta partntum...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within...He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere, et qua sitpoterit cognoscere virtus — Suppose, sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within...He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere, et qute sit potent cognoscere virtus — Suppose, sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing...
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The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to ..., Volume 18

Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 pages
...rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within...period of the life of man. It has happened within 68 years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my lord...
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ...

Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...rest upon the future. Let us> however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within...period of the life of man. It has happened within 68 years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord...
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