 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 Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)
...uniting the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, with the little traffic of a merchant's counting house ; wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking' a pocket with the other.' Mr. Pitt also expatiated on many aggravating circumstances in Mr. Hastings's conduct. The charge. was... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 487 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
...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
...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
...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 - 548 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
...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/... | |
 | 1842
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 | 1872
...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... | |
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