 What a sublime thought, that no purge can now be taken between the Weser and the Garonne; that the bustling pestle is still, the canorous mortar mute, and the bowels of mankind locked up for fourteen degrees of latitude! When, I should be curious to know,...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 140edited by - 1862Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 590 pages
...of mankind locked up for fourteen degrees of latitude ! When, I should be curious to know, were nil the powers of crudity and flatulence fully explained...mind was the idea of destroying the pride and the plaisters of France first engendered ? Without castoroil they might for some months, to be sure, have... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 596 pages
...(exclaims Plymley) ' that no purge can now be taken between the Weser and the Garonne ; that the bustling pestle is still, the canorous mortar mute, and the...latitude ! When, I should be curious to know, were nil the powers of crudity and flatulence fully explained to his Majesty's ministers ? At what period... | |
 | 1843 - 602 pages
...incline the French to peace. The inimitable Peter Plymley has embalmed the memory of this plan — " At what period was this great plan of conquest and...and the plasters of France first engendered? Without castor oil they might for some months, to be sure, have carried on a lingering war; but can they do... | |
 | 1843 - 594 pages
...incline the French to peace. The inimitable Peter Plymley has embalmed the memory of this plan — ' At what period was this great plan of conquest and...the plasters of France first engendered ? Without castor oil they might for some months, to be sure, have carried on a lingering war ; but can they do... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - Art - 1843 - 612 pages
...incline the French to peace. The inimitable Peter Plymley has embalmed the memory of this plan — " At what period was this great plan of conquest and...and the plasters of France first engendered? Without castor oil they might for some months, to be sure, have carried on a lingering war; but can they do... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 388 pages
...sublime thought, that no purge can now be taken between the Weser and the Garonne ; that the bustling pestle is still, the canorous mortar mute, and the...and the plasters of France first engendered? Without castor oil they might, for some months, to be sure, have carried on a lingering war; but can they .do... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1845 - 496 pages
...sublime thought, that no purge can now be taken between the Weser and the Garonne; that the bustling; pestle is still, the canorous mortar mute, and the...the plasters of France first engendered ? Without castor oil they might, for some months, to be sure, have carried on a lingering war; but can they do... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1848 - 580 pages
...sublime thought, that no purge can now be taken between the Weser and the Garonne ; that the bustling pestle is still, the canorous mortar mute, and the...Majesty's ministers ? At what period was this great plan off conquest and constipation fully developed ? In whose mind was the idea of destroying the pride... | |
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