 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 590 pages
...upholsterer for this House, — to furnish it, not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate, and may reproach, some other houses,...solid, living patterns of true modern virtue. Paul Benield made (reckoning himself) no fewer than eight members in the last Parliament. What copious streams... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 590 pages
...upholsterer for this House, — to furnish it, not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate, and may reproach, some other houses,...solid, living patterns of true modern virtue. Paul Benield made (reckoning himself) no fewer than eight members in the last Parliament. What copious streams... | |
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... his charitable toils for the relief of India, did not forget the poor rotten constitution of his native country. For her, he did not disdain to stoop to the trade of a wholesale upholsterer for this house, to furnish it not with the faded tapestry... 
