 Cheltenham, which is what they call a " watering place " ; that is to say, a place to which East India plunderers, West India floggers, English taxgorgers, together with gluttons, drunkards, and debauchees of all descriptions, female as well as male,...  Cobbett's Political Register - Page 137edited by - 1826Full view - About this book
 | William Cobbett - 1826 - 438 pages
...a " watering place"; that is to say, a place, to which East India plunderers, West India floggers, English taxgorgers, together with gluttons, drunkards,...suggestion of silently laughing quacks, in the hope of gelling rid of the bodily consequences of their manifold sins and iniquities. When I enter a place... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1830 - 766 pages
...a "watering place " ; that is to say, a place, to which East India plunderers, West India floggers, English tax-gorgers, together with gluttons, drunkards,...sins and iniquities. When I enter a place like this, 1 always feel disposed to squeeze up my nose with my fingers. It is nonsense, to be sure ; but 1 conceit... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1885 - 430 pages
..." watering place ; " that is to say, a place, to which East India plunderers, West India floggers, English tax-gorgers, together with gluttons, drunkards,...with my fingers. It is nonsense, to be sure ; but I conceive that every twolegged creature, that I see coming near me, is about to cover me with the poisonous... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1908 - 422 pages
..." watering place ; " that is to say, a place, to which East India plunderers, West India floggers, English tax-gorgers, together with gluttons, drunkards,...with my fingers. It is nonsense, to be sure ; but I conceive that every twolegged creature, that I see coming near me, is about to cover me with the poisonous... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 876 pages
...India floggers, English tea-gorgers, with gluttons, drunkards, and debauchees of all descriptions. When I enter a place like this, I always feel disposed to squeeze up my nose with my fingers ; and I conceive that every two-legged creature that I see coming near me is about to cover me with... | |
 | Peter Fryer - 1984 - 652 pages
...call a "watering-place"; that is to say, a place, to which East India plunderers, West India (loggers, English tax-gorgers, together with gluttons, drunkards,...feel disposed to squeeze up my nose with my fingers.' 36. [Trelawney Wentworth], The Wat India Sketch Book (Whittaker & Co., 1834), II. 70n. 37. (John Fothergill],... | |
 | Kevin Gilmartin - 1996 - 304 pages
...downfall. When Cobbett reached Cheltenham, "a place, to which East India plunderers, West India floggers, English taxgorgers, together with gluttons, drunkards,...all descriptions, female as well as male, resort," he was seized by an impulse "to squeeze up my nose with my fingers": "It is nonsense, to be sure; but... | |
 | 李运兴 - 2003 - 396 pages
...call a "watering place" , that is to say, a place to which East India plunderers, West India floggers, English taxgorgers, together with gluttons, drunkards,...the bodily consequences of their manifold sins and iniquities.3 When I enter a place like this, I 扯ways 椒l 低ws 刨饰闽u 鹤配upmyno 鳃诵山my... | |
 | Landmark Visitors Guides Staff, Richard Sale - 2004 - 214 pages
...ill-looking place, half clown, half cockney', peopled with 'East India plunderers, West Indian (loggers. English tax-gorgers, together with gluttons, drunkards...debauchees of all descriptions, female as well as male', here at the suggestion of 'silently laughing quacks, in the hope of getting rid of the bodily consequences... | |
 | William Cobbett - 2005 - 329 pages
...a " watering place "; that is to say, a place to which East India plunderers, West India floggers, English taxgorgers, together with gluttons, drunkards,...consequences of their manifold sins and iniquities. When Ryall to Burghclere 127 I enter a place like this. I always feel disposed to squeeze up my nose with... | |
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