 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
 | Robert Bisset - 1820 - 510 pages
...hand ; and a prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Thus a government was exhibited, uniting the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little...with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other." This energetic, grand, and splendid display of eloquence was closed by the following peroration : "... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 462 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 effect of this Speech, added to the line taken by the Minister, turned the balance against Hastings,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 564 pages
...achievements, the meanness CHAP. 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 effect of this Speech, added to the line taken by the Minister, turned the balance against Hastings,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 568 pages
...profligacy of pirates. Alike in the political and the military line could be observed auction- ,1737. Bering ambassadors and trading generals; — and thus we...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,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 656 pages
...united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little traffic of a merchant's cauntiny-Jionte, wielding a truncheon with one hand, and pick-ing a pocket with the other." The effect of this Speech, added to the line taken by the Minister, turned the balance against Hastings,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1826 - 572 pages
...; a prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Thus it was they exhibited a government, wliich united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the...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,... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1826 - 362 pages
...they exhibited a government, which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little Iraffic of a merchant's counting-house, wielding a truncheon...hand, and picking a pocket with the other." On the fourth day of the oration he rose into Ins most ambitious flights, and produced some of those dazzling... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1828 - 302 pages
...was they exhihited a government, which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the hittle traffic of a merchant's counting-house, wielding a...with one hand , and picking a pocket with the other. Mr Sheridan now went into a long statement to shew the various irrefragable proofs exhihited in the... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1828 - 1016 pages
...uniting the mock modesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little traffic of a merchant's counting house, wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other." This energetic, grand, and splendid display of eloquence was closed by the following peroration. "Factions... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pages
...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... | |
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