 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 - 1866 - 326 pages
...government, which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little traffic of a merehant's counting-house, 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,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1872 - 612 pages
...meanness of a pedlar and the profligacy of pirates — alike in the political political and military lino, could be observed auctioneering ambassadors and trading...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... | |
 | William Torrens McCullagh Torrens - 1872 - 484 pages
...town besieged on a note of hand, a prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Thus it was they united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre and the...with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other." — RB SHERIDAN.' T7ROM the reports sent home by the baffled triumvirate, Ministers learned enough... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 456 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.' clearly got the worst of it when, by a contemptuous reference to the theatre, he provoked the comparison... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 484 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 656 pages
...auctioneering ambassadors and trading generals; and thus we saw a revolution brought about by affidavit*; an army employed in executing an arrest ; a town besieged...with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other." The debate was adjourned to the next day, for the house could not be brought to listen to any other... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 416 pages
...prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Thus it was, that 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. CICERO, Phili-pp. xiii. § 5. iii. §21,22. xiii. § 43-45. ii. § 35, 65-07. § 92-95. § 108. PANEGYRIC... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 416 pages
...account. Thus it was, that a government was exhibited, uniting the mock majesty of a bloody sdeptre and the little traffic of a merchant's counting-house...with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other. CICERO, PhiUpp. xiii. § 5. iii. § 21, 22. xiii. § 43-45. ii. § 35, 65-67. § 92-95. § 108. PANEGYRIC-... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1876 - 500 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/ Hypereides was the Sheridan of Athens. style of -r^ • • o , TT • i I'll' i Hypereides, Dionysios... | |
 | Mikhail Afrikanovich Terentʹev - 1876 - 324 pages
...a Government, which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre and the little traffic ofamerchanfs counting-house; wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other." The Company however, consisting as it did of " highwaymen in kid gloves" was clearly bound to uphold... | |
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