 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 546 Seiten
...a manner which showed how much he was affected. He embraced the Earl with tender ness, and said, " God, who placed me here, will do what he pleases with me hereafter, and he knows best what to do. May he bless you." And in a letter from Chesterfield to a lady of rank at Paris, he says, " I frequently... | |
 | 1860 - 520 Seiten
...soul and a future state. A week before he died, he took leave of a friend with kindness, saying, " God, who placed me here, will do what he pleases with me hereafter ; and he knows best what to do. May he bless you !" He was in all points a very extraordinary character. Lord Chesterfield, having... | |
 | 1863 - 662 Seiten
...12th of December, 1751; having taken leave of Lord Chesterfield a few days before his death, saying, ' God, who placed me here, will do what He ' pleases with me hereafter, and He knows best what to do. ' May He bless you.' Assuming ' great ' to be a term for expressing the extent of influence, good or... | |
 | Thomas Macknight - 1863 - 750 Seiten
...himself that his death was near. Chesterfield paid him a farewell visit. " God," said Bolingbroke, " who placed me here, will do what He pleases with me hereafter ; and He knows best what to do. May He bless you !" Now and then he fell into fits of passion and rage. He refused the ministrations... | |
 | 1863 - 634 Seiten
...Chesterfield, his warmest friend in these last days, paid him a farewell visit. ' God,' said the dying man, ' who placed me here, will do what He pleases with me hereafter; and He knows best what to do. May He bless you!' He died on the 12th of December 1751. ART. V.—1. Annual Reports of the General... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1867 - 426 Seiten
...farewell of him," writes Lord Chesterfield, "he returned his last farewell with tenderness, and said, ' God, who placed me here, will do what he pleases with me Weafter; and he knows best what to do. May he bless youl'" WBK not so much as a subject of inquiry;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 Seiten
...in a manner which showed how much he was affected. He embraced the Earl with tenderness, and said, " God, who placed me here, will do what he pleases with me hereafter, — and He knows best what to do. May He bless you." And in a letter from Chesterfield to a lady of rank at Paris, he says, " I frequently... | |
 | 1872 - 556 Seiten
...took my last leave of him with grief ; and he returned me his last farewell with tenderness, and said, "God, who placed me here, will do what he pleases with me hereafter; and he knows best what to do. May he bless you ! " Upon the whole of this extraordinary character, what can we say, but, alas.' poor... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 Seiten
...Chesterfield, after he had given orders that none of the clergy should visit him in his last moments : " God, who placed me here, will do what He pleases with me hereafter ; and He knows best what to do. May He bless you." 21. Pope's "Essay on Man" sprang from an endeavour to meet and grapple with the... | |
 | sir John Skelton - 1876 - 430 Seiten
...Chesterfield, his warmest friend in these last days, paid him a farewell visit. " God," said the dying man, " who placed me here, will do what He pleases with me hereafter ; and He knows best what to do. May He bless you !" He died on the 12th of December 1751. MARY STUART BRUTUS. "Stoop, Romans, stoop,... | |
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God, who placed me here, will do what he pleases with me hereafter, and he knows best what to do. May he bless you. 
