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The Speeches of the Right Honorable William Huskisson: With a Biographical ... - Page 565
by William Huskisson - 1831
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The speeches of ... William Huskisson, with a biogr. memoir, Volume 3

William Huskisson - 1831 - 708 pages
...assent to it. The arguments which I have heard this night against the emancipation of the Jews, are precisely the same, mutatis mutandis, as those which, for the last thirty years, I have bcen in the habit of hearing urged against the emancipation of the Catholics. But, while I admit that...
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Select Speeches of the Right Honourable William Windham, and the ..., Volume 2

William Windham - Great Britain - 1837 - 694 pages
...assent to it. The arguments which I have heard this night against the emancipation of the Jews, are precisely the same, mutatis mutan-dis, as those which,...of the Catholics. But, while I admit that no such over-raling necessity is apparent in this case, I maintain that the last blot of this kind ought to...
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Over the Teacups

Oliver Wendell Holmes - American wit and humor - 1890 - 334 pages
...I don't think that this reason should hinder my having rfy say about the ballad-mongering business. For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of receiving a volume of poems or a poem, printed or manuscript — I will not say daily, though I sometimes...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 65

1890 - 880 pages
...don't think that this reason should hinder my having my say about the ballad - mongering business. For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of receiving a volume of poems or a poem, printed or manuscript — I will not say daily, though I sometimes...
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Over the Teacups, Volume 4

Oliver Wendell Holmes - American wit and humor - 1891 - 340 pages
...I don't think that this reason should hinder my having my say about the ballad-mongering business. For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of receiving a volume of poems or a poem, printed or manuscript — I will not say daily, though I sometimes...
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The Author, Volume 2

William Henry Hills - Authors, American - 1891 - 202 pages
...I don't think that this reason should hinder my having my say about the ballad-mongering business. For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of receiving a volume of poems or a poem, printed or manuscript, — I will not say daily, though I sometimes...
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Works, Volume 14

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1896 - 436 pages
...him could only be equalled by the ingenuous prayers of childhood. In Over the Teacups he wrote: — "For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of receiving a volume of poems or a poem, printed or manuscript — I will not say daily, though I sometimes...
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Over the teacups

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 340 pages
...I don't think that this reason should hinder my having my say about the ballad-mongering business. For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of receiving a volume of poems or a poem, printed or manuscript — I will not say daily, though I sometimes...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...of the greatest sufferers. Here is * really pathetic passage from his volume " Over the Tea-Cups:" " For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of receiving a volume of poems, or a poem, printed or manuscript,—I will not say daily, though I sometimes...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...of the greatest sufferers. Here is a really pathetic passage from his volume "Over the Tea-Cups:" " For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of receiving a volume of poems, or a poem, printed or manuscript, — I will not say daily, though I sometimes...
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