| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 ページ
...what have we got, or shall ever get, but defeat and shame ? I did not obey your instructions ! No, I he grace or he a person of stability. I am to look, indeed, to your opinions : but to such opinions as yon and... | |
| Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 ページ
...what have we got, or shall ever get, but defeat and shame ? I did not obey your instructions ! Xo, I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature, and maintained your interest against yonr opinions with a constancy that became me. A representative worthy of you ought to be a I*rson... | |
| Henry Wilson - 1877 - 814 ページ
...nature, and maintained your interests against your opinions. I ana, indeed, to look to your opinions, but such opinions as you and I must have five years hence. I must not look to the flash of the day." Like the English statesman the Republican leaders looked to... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1878 - 488 ページ
...what have we got, or shall ever get, but defeat and shame 1 I did not obey your instructions. No ! I conformed to the instructions of truth and Nature,...the flash of the day. I knew that you chose me, in ray place, along with others, to be a pillar of the State, and not a weathercock on the top of the... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1880 - 1104 ページ
...Edmund Burke stood before the electors of Bristol and said : " I did not obey your instructions. I^o ! I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature,...against your opinions with a constancy that became me"—he rose to the full stature of a rare and glorious manhood. Yet, the tide of popular feeling... | |
| Frederick William Seward, William Henry Seward - 1891 - 638 ページ
...one of the volumes of Burke, and read a favorite quotation: I am indeed to look to your opinions, but such opinions as you and I must have five years hence — I must not look to the flash of the day. Before the war the African slave trade had continued to thrive... | |
| Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 410 ページ
...what have we got, or shall ever get, but defeat and shame ? I did not obey your instructions : No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature,...became me. A representative worthy of you ought to be 10 a person of stability. I am to look, indeed, to your opinions ; but to such opinions as you and... | |
| 1895 - 720 ページ
...at Bristol. In a speech at Bristol in 1780, Mr. Burke said: "I did not obey your instructions. No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature,...interest, against your opinions, with a constancy which became me. A representative worthy of you ought to be a person of stability. I am to look, indeed,... | |
| Richard Dacre Archer-Hind, Robert Drew Hicks - 1899 - 518 ページ
...have we ever got, or shall ever get, but defeat and shame ? I did not obey your instructions. No, I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature,...hence. I was not to look to the flash of the day. BUKKE. Τ THINK I see you — for I try to see you in the flesh as I write these sentences — I think... | |
| John Bailey Adger - 1899 - 710 ページ
...not a deputy, when he declared to the electors of Bristol, 'I did not obey your instructions ; no ! I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature...against your opinions, with a constancy that became me ;' and Chatham understood the true nature of his office, though he may have erred on a point of etiquette,... | |
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