 Alike in the political and military line could be observed auctioneering ambassadors and trading generals : and thus we saw a revolution brought about by affidavits ! an army employed in executing an arrest ! a town besieged on a note of hand ! a prince...  The North American Review - Page 77edited by - 1848Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 504 pages
...united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little traffic of a merchant's countinghnuse, wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other.''' The effect of this speech , added to the line taken by the Minister, turned the balance against Hastings... | |
 | 1839 - 492 pages
...was that they exhibited a government which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre and the petty traffic of a merchant's counting-house ; wielding...with one hand and picking a pocket with the other." Though there certainly are portions of this description which do not apply to the case before us, there... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1839 - 484 pages
...was that they exhibited a government which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre and the petty traffic of a merchant's counting-house ; wielding...with one hand and picking a pocket with the other." Though there certainly are portions of this description which do not apply to the case before us, there... | |
 | 1839 - 560 pages
...which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre and 'he petty traffic of a merchant's countingbouse ; wielding a truncheon with one hand and picking a pocket with the other." For many features of the following portrait an original might possibly be found at the present day.... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1842 - 588 pages
...achievements, the meanness of a pedlar, and the profligacy of pirates. Alike in the political and the military line could be observed auctioneering ambassadors...with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other. Mr. Sheridan now went into a long statement to show the various irrefragable proofs exhibited in the... | |
 | 1842 - 596 pages
...besieged on a note of hand ; a. prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Thus it was they exhihited a government which united the mock majesty of a bloody...with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other. Against Sir Elijah Impey, Sheridan ran on still more riotously. He called him ' the Oriental Grotius/... | |
 | 1872 - 862 pages
...even with their boldest achievements, the meanness of a pedlar and the profligacy of pirates — alike in the political and military line, could be observed...with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other." His parliamentary reputation could hardly have been maintained by his set speeches, although he devoted... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1848 - 538 pages
...; a prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Thus it was they exhibited a government i^hich united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre and the...state trial is said to have reached its height on the occasion of his speech. Fifty guineas were known to have been paid for a ticket. The oration, including... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...achievements, the meanness of a pedlar, and the profligacy of pirates. Alike in the political and the military line could be observed auctioneering ambassadors...with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other. The documents on the table would bear incontrovertible testimony that insurrections had constantly... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1853 - 424 pages
...as a government, and disgraced even their boldest achievements, which showed the meanness of pedlers and the profligacy of pirates. " Alike," he says,...picking a pocket with the other." On the 3d of June, 1788, Sheridan, having been appointed one of the managers of the impeachment of Hastings, delivered... | |
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