 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...Soph'is-ter, n sophos. Sub-or-di-na'tion, » ordo. | E-con'o-mist, n oikos,nomo3. Fe-roc'i-ty, n ferox. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, — glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendour, and... | |
 | Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 pages
...sixteen or seventeen years | since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness,* at Versailles; ajid surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Maria. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.* EDMUND BURKE. 1730-1797. On the French Revolution. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy Little did I dream that I should have lived to see... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...shrinks in the midst of hia journey. XXIV.— EULOGIDM ON MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE.— JBurte. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! — and what a heart must... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 pages
...limbs and mutilated carcasses. Thence they were conducted into the capital of their kingdom. . . . It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendor and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - History - 1997 - 476 pages
...will save herself from the last disgrace, and that if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | Hilda L. Smith - History - 1998 - 428 pages
...24 Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, 30. 25 Burke recounts his famous vision thus: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...sphere she just began to move in glittering like the morning star full of life and splendor and joy. (Reflections, ed. JGA Pocock [Indianapolis: Hackett... | |
 | Marilyn Morris - History - 1998 - 252 pages
...apostrophe to Marie Antoinette, which lies at the center of the work, is rich in its emotional resonances: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!... | |
 | Mandy Merck - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 252 pages
...Burke in 1790 toward that adornment to the feudal corruption of the French Bourbons, Marie Antoinette: 'Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy.'... | |
 | Edmund Burke (III) - History - 1999 - 356 pages
...will save herself from the last disgrace, and that if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
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It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 
