 This polyglot of wealth, this museum of curiosities, the pension list, embraces every link in the human chain, every description of men, women, and children, from the exalted excellence of a Hawke or a Rodney, to the debased situation of the lady who...  The Irish Confederates, and the Rebellion of 1798 - Page 70by Henry Martyn Field - 1851 - 369 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Grattan - Ireland - 1813 - 540 pages
...ancestors are yet unborn, will be surprised at the \engeance he will take. "This polyglot of wealth, this museum of curiosities, the Pension List, embraces...lady who humbleth herself that she may be exalted. But the lessons it inculcates form its greatest perfection ; — it teacheth, that sloth and Tice may... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 552 pages
...APPENDIX TO VOL. II. No. I. Extract from Mr. Curran's Speech on Pensions. THIS polyglot of wealth, this museum of curiosities, the •pension list, embraces...lady who humbleth herself that she may be exalted. But the lessons it inculcates forms its greater perfection : — it teaches, that sloth and vice may... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - Elocution - 1815 - 340 pages
...ancestors are yet unborn, will be surprised at the vengeance he will take. This polyglot of wealth, this museum of curiosities, the Pension List, embraces...lady who humbleth herself that she may be exalted. But the lessons it inculcates from its greatest perfection; — it teacheth, that sloth and vice may... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 708 pages
...embraces every link in the human chain, every description of men, women, and children, from the lofty excellence of a Hawke, or a Rodney, to the debased...lady who humbleth herself that she may be exalted. But the lesson it inculcates, forms its greatest perfection : — it teacheth that sloth and vice are... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1818 - 356 pages
...in the human chain, every description of men, women, and children, from the exalted excellence of an Hawke or a Rodney, to the debased situation of the...lady who humbleth herself that she may be exalted. ' But the lessons it inculcates form its greatest perfection — It teaches that sloth and vice may... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 590 pages
...the human chain, every description of men, women, and children, from the loftv excellence of aHawke, or a Rodney, to the debased situation of the lady who humbleth herself that she may be exalted. But the lesson it inculcates, forms its greatest perfection : — it teacheth that sloth and vice are... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...from the indulgence of vegetable loquacity. DESCRIPTION OF THE PENSION LIST. THIS polyglot of wealth, this museum of curiosities, the pension list, embraces...lady who humbleth herself that she may be exalted. But the lessons it inculcates form its greatest perfection : — it teacheth,. that sloth and vice... | |
 | Ireland - 1821 - 508 pages
...of March, 1786, are admirable specimens of grave and sarcastic humour: — This polyglot of wealth, this museum of curiosities, the pension list, embraces...lady who ' humbleth herself that she may be exalted.' But the lessons it inculcates form its greatest perfection : — it teacheth, that sloth and vice may... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Great Britain - 1822 - 436 pages
...ancestors are yet unborn, will be surprised at the vengeance he will take. " This polyglot of wealth, this museum of curiosities, the pension list, embraces...lady who humbleth herself that she may be exalted. But the lessons it inculcates form its greatest perfection; — it teacheth, that sloth and vice may... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Biography - 1822 - 434 pages
...in the human chain, every description of men, women, and children, from the exalted excellence of an Hawke or a Rodney, to the debased situation of the...lady who humbleth herself that she may be exalted. But the lessons it inculcates form its greatest perfection—it teaches that sloth and vice may eat... | |
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