 | 1814 - 556 pages
...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 - Political science - 1807 - 540 pages
...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 adversum" 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... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...bustle of struggling for an adequate provision in life. " I was not," said he, in his forcible manner, " swaddled, rocked, and dandled into a legislator. Nitor in adversum is the motto for a man like me." He was arrived too at the age of 36— a time when this multifarious knowledge was digested and methodized... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...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 adversum" 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 662 pages
...estimate I leave the matter. I was not, like his Grace of Bedford, swaddled, and rocked, anddandled in to ompetence of government, taken as government, or even of the rich, I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 660 pages
...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 adversum" 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... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...bustle of struggling for an adequate provision in life. " I was not," said he, in his forcible manner, " swaddled, rocked, and dandled into a legislator. Nitor in adversum is the motto for a man like me." He was arrived too at the age of thirty-six — a time when this multifarious knowledge was digested... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...state." He then gives a passing look at his Grace of Bedford. " I was not, like his Grace, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator. ' Nitor in adversum' 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...state." He then gives a passing look at his Grace of Bedford. " I was not, like his Grace, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator. ' Nitor in adversum' 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... | |
 | Francis Horner - Russia (Federation) - 1843 - 534 pages
...his mind the following passage in Burke: — " I was not, like his Grace of Bedford, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator ; ' 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,... | |
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I was not, like his Grace of Bedford, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator; " Nitor in adversum" 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... 
