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" I venture to say, it did so happen, that persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed. "
Political Portraits in this New Era: With Explanatory Notes, Historical and ... - Page 111
by William Playfair - 1814
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Burke's Speech on American Taxation

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1905 - 136 pages
...had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives ; until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, 10 in the same truckle-bed. Sir, in consequence of this arrangement, having put so much the larger...
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Calendar, Part 3

University of Calcutta - 1908 - 562 pages
...had a single office divided between them, who had never spoken to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed. (c) You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who' carry your bolts in their pounces...
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English Composition: With Chapters on Précis Writing, Prosody and Style

William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 pages
...persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed. BURKE, Speech on American Taxation, Other prose passages will be found in The Spectator,...
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Burke's Speeches and Letters on American Affairs

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1911 - 318 pages
...persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed.1 Sir, in consequence of this arrangement, having put so much the larger part of his enemies...
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A Source Book of English History for the Use of Schools, Volume 2

Arthur Donald Innes - Great Britain - 1914 - 298 pages
...persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points in the same truckle-bed. Sir, in consequence of this arrangement, having put so much the larger part of his enemies...
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Oratory, British and Irish, the Great Age (from the Accession of George the ...

Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1918 - 632 pages
...persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed.' Sir, in consequence of this arrangement having put so much the larger part of his enemies...
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A Gallery

Philip Guedalla - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 308 pages
...persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed." He brings to the work a sense of dignity ; and one can only hope that he will succeed...
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Religion, Commerce, Liberty: A Record of a Time of Storm and Change, 1683-1793

John Wynne Jeudwine - Europe - 1925 - 436 pages
...persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoken to each other in their lives until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging...together, heads and points, in the same truckle bed (Rockingham Papers, i, 258). Walpole complains of Bute because he says : " my place of Usher to the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 66

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 - 1840 - 650 pages
...persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives; until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and 'points, in the same' truckle-bed.' — Sp. on Amer. Tax. We cannot omit extracting the autograph note in which the King...
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Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue

Stephen H. Browne - History - 1993 - 172 pages
...persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging...together, heads and points, in the same truckle bed. Here is an exquisite bit of mock-epideictic. With the very pace and structure of its clauses, the passage...
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