 The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 511edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped.of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! Therfe, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the divine justice, and in some degree... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1861 - 448 pages
...performance of some duty. — At this exigent moment, the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied. and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate'...divine justice, and in some degree submit to it. — I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. — Indeed, I greatly deceive myself, if, in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...late hurricane hath scattered j.bout me. I am stripped of all my honors : I am torn up by the rooru, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognise the divine justice, and in some degree submit to it. But whilst I humble myself before God,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...those old oaks which the late hurricane hath scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours : I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the...earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognise the divine justice, and in some degree submit to it. But whilst I humble myself before God,... | |
 | William King Tweedie - Biography - 1864 - 482 pages
...over me," he wrote. '- and I lie like one of those old oaks which the hurricane scatters around us I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth." "I am alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate " These and similar utterances of grief tell... | |
 | John Stoughton - London (England) - 1864 - 302 pages
...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. I greatly deceive myself if, in this hard season,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...those old oaks which the late hurricane hath scattered pbout me. I am stripped of all my honors : I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the...earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognise the divine justice, and in some decree submit to it. But whilst I humble myself before God,... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Great Britain - 1865 - 724 pages
...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth." 3 " It would, perhaps, be displaying a morbid curiosity, to attempt to raise the veil, and trace the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1866 - 528 pages
...of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the...the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it. But whilst I humble myself before God, I do not know that it is forbidden to repel the attacks of unjust... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1866 - 526 pages
...of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. There, and prostrate there, I most unfcignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it. But whilst I humble myself... | |
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