 Nitor in adversum"1 is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the trade...  Notes and Queries - Стр. 3801907Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1814 - Страниц: 556
...this passage without being reminded of Mr Burke's celebrated letter, in which he says, ' I was not swaddled and rocked and dandled into a legislator: Nitor in adversum, is the motto for a man Jike me. ' * The whole is worthy of being compared with the original Latin. Mr K.'s translation is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - Страниц: 536
...profited of them more or less, for above eight and twenty years. To their estimate I leave the matter. I was not, like his grace of Bedford, swaddled, and...rocked, and dandled into a legislator ; " Nitor in aJversum" is .the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - Страниц: 844
...oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt. The Difference between Mr. BurJce and tlie Duke of Bedford.* was not, like his Grace of Bedford, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a slator — Nitor in adver sum is the motto fur a man like me. I possessed not one he qualities, nor... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - Страниц: 618
...profited of them more or less, for ahove eight and twenty years. To their estimate I have the matter. I was not, like his grace of Bedford, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator ; " JVitor in advcrtrum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - Страниц: 620
...profiled of them more or less, for above eight and twenty years. To their estimate I leave the matter. 0՚ 4$ A - &TϞ ڂ t 6 IK <g HB TK y a @ $ "߾Z =0 = j ڛ 4J s ; " ,!Vttoг in advereum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - Страниц: 586
...profited of them more or less, for above eight and twenty years. To their estimate I leave the matter. I was not, like his grace of Bedford, swaddled, and...rocked, and dandled into a legislator; " Nitor in adverstim," is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one... | |
 | Francis Horner - 1843 - Страниц: 534
...— "Nitor in adversum." It is probable that he had in his mind the following passage in Burke: — " I was not, like his Grace of Bedford, swaddled, and...' Nitor in adversum'' is the motto for a man like me."f LETTER XXXII. TO JAMES LOCH, ESQ. Edinburgh, 12th December, 1802. Many thanks, my dear Loch,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Страниц: 738
...a Noble Lord,' one of the most sarcutic and moet able of all hie productions.] I was not, like hi« "A 1844 adverturn is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - Страниц: 404
...are given in reference to this subject.] The Difference Between Mr. Burke and the Duke of Bedford. I was not, like his Grace of Bedford, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator — Nitar in adversum* is the motto of a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - Страниц: 764
...' Letten to a Noble Lord,' one of the meet sarcastic and most able of all Ыз productions^ I trau st swept the defendants into undistinguished destruction. How few appear in those streets, which adverню ;•- the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one... | |
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