 | 1881 - 596 pages
...sublime religion which he had long rejected, and on which he was even then preparing to heap insult. ' God who placed me here will do what He pleases with...hereafter, and He knows best what to do. May He bless you.' These were the last recorded words of Bolingbroke. On the 12th of December 1751 he was no more. A little... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 374 pages
...Chesterfield, his warmest friend in these last days, paid him a farewell visit. " God," said the dying man, " who placed me here, will do what He pleases with me...hereafter; and He knows best what to do. May he bless you ! " He died on the 1 2th of December 1751. FROM CHATHAM TO CANNING. 1735 TO 1827. TO many of us history... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 378 pages
...Chesterfield, his warmest friend in these last days, paid him a farewell visit. " God," said the dying man, " who placed me here, will do what He pleases with me...hereafter; and He knows best what to do. May he bless you!" He died on the 12th of December 1751. } f- » >• >*' >; -> • FROM CHATHAM TO CANNING. 1735 TO 1827.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 784 pages
...he still took leave of him in a manner which showed how much he was affected. He embraced the Earl with tenderness, and said, " God, ] who placed me here, will do what he pleases with me hereafter,—and He knows best what to do. May He bless you." And in a letter from Chesterfield to... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1886 - 362 pages
...sublime religion which he had long rejected, and on which he was even then preparing to heap insult. " God who placed me here will do what He pleases with...hereafter, and He knows best what to do. May He bless you." These were the last recorded words of Bolingbroke. On the 12th of December 1751 he was no more. A little... | |
 | Arthur Hassall - 1889 - 272 pages
...December, 1751, he became convinced his end was near, and took leave of Chesterfield with the words : — " God, who placed me here, will do what He pleases with...; and He knows best what to do. May He bless you." A few days later, on December the 12th, after a short period of severe suffering, overcome with the... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1891 - 302 pages
...Journal to Stella, Nov. 3, 1711. Characters by Lord Chesterfield. Characters by Lord Chesterfield. (as is commonly supposed) the immortality of the soul,...' Upon the whole of this extraordinary character, what can we say, but, alas ! poor human nature ! Mr. Pulteney2. Mr. Pulteney was formed by nature for... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1891 - 296 pages
...state. He died of a cruel and shocking distemper, a cancer in his face, which he endured with firmness1. A week before he died, I took my last leave of him...' Upon the whole of this extraordinary character, what can we say, but, alas ! poor human nature ! Mr. Pulteney2. Mr. Pulteney was formed by nature for... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1897 - 552 pages
...12 Uec. 1751. Chesterfield saw him shortly before his death, and reports his saying, ' God, who had placed me here, will do what, he pleases with me hereafter ; and he knows best what to do. May he bless you ! ' (see CHESTERFIELD, ii. 448, iii. 432," iv. 1). There were also edifying reports of his refusing... | |
 | Frederic Rowland Marvin - 1900 - 294 pages
...have mercy upon me, and be gracious to me, 155 God preserve the emperor, 75 God protect Bulgaria, 157 God, who placed me here, will do what he pleases with me hereafter, 19 God will continue to support me, 59 God's wounds ! The villain hath killed me, 1 74 Good-bye, 121... | |
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God, who placed me here, will do what he pleases with me hereafter, and he knows best what to do. May He bless you. 
