 | 1827 - 698 Seiten
...not to be considered as guilty of prodigality in giving me what is 1 •• •yond my merits, but not beyond my debts, as you know. The public — I...They eat deep on what was designed to maintain me.' It is possible, that men in their sympathy for the fate of genius, as they will phrase it, may lament... | |
 | 1827 - 606 Seiten
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 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 716 Seiten
...who ought not to be considered as guilty of prodigality in giving me what is beyond my merits, but not beyond my debts, as you know. The public — I...They eat deep on what was designed to maintain me. What is most material, your friend Mrs. Burke is, I bless God for it, much better. Her pains, which... | |
 | Thomas Macknight - 1860 - 802 Seiten
...memory, and to those who ought not to be considered prodigal in giving me what is beyond my merits, but not beyond my debts, as you know. The public — I...They eat deep on what was designed to maintain me."* To the most important point raised about the pension, that it was made on the authority of the Crown... | |
 | 1860 - 836 Seiten
...my son's memory, and those ought not to be considered as guiltv of prodigality in giving me what is beyond my debts, as you know. The public — I won't...about it — has overpaid me; I wish I could overpay creditors. They eat deep on what was desgined to maintain me." It is possible that men, in their sympathy... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1898 - 142 Seiten
...memory, and to those who ought not to be considered prodigal in giving me what is beyond my merits, but not beyond my debts, as you know. The public — I...They eat deep on what was designed to maintain me" ("Correspondence," p. 43). 9 4. One style to a gracious benefactor. Burke wrote " one language for... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2004 - 656 Seiten
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 | William Hazlitt - 2007 - 1143 Seiten
...that Troward has. He speaks of the pay he had received from Government, in the following terms: — overpaid me — I wish I could overpay my creditors....They eat deep on what was designed to maintain me. (Poor man! his apostacy was ill paid.) — p. 43. This is what he thought of the government in its... | |
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But it signifies nothing : what I wrote was to discharge a debt I thought to my own and my son's memory, and to those who ought not to be considered as guilty of prodigality in giving me what is beyond my merits, but not beyond my debts, as you know.... 