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" ... enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, " Sir, your name? Sir, you have the advantage... "
The Republican Campaign Text Book for 1882 - Page 136
by Republican Congressional Committee - 1882 - 240 pages
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English Composition: With Chapters on Précis Writing, Prosody and Style

William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 pages
...obliged to ask, "Sir, your name?" — "Sir, you have the advantage of me" — " Mr Such-a-one" — " I beg a thousand pardons" — I venture to say, it...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
...were obliged to ask, " Sir, your name? — Sir, you have the advantage of me — Mr. Such-a-one — I beg a thousand pardons — " I venture to say, it...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
...obliged to ask, ' Sir, your name ' ? — 'Sir, you have the advantage of me' — 'Mr Such-aone ' — ' I beg a thousand pardons ' — I venture to say, it...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
...and were obliged to ask, ' Sir, your name ? Sir, you have the advantage of me — Mr. Such-a-one — I beg a thousand pardons.' I venture to say, it did...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
...were obliged to ask, ' Sir, your name ? — Sir, you have the advantage of me — Mr. Such-a-one — I beg a thousand pardons — ' I venture to say, it...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
...Sometimes, as Burke expressed it, persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoken to each other in their lives until they found themselves,...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
...were obliged to ask, "Sir, your name? — Sir, you have the advantage of me — Mr. Such-a-one — I beg a thousand pardons." I venture to say it did...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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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume II: Party, Parliament and ...

Edmund Burke - Biography & Autobiography - 1981 - 536 pages
...the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, "Sir, your name? — Sir, you have the advantage of me — Mr. Such a one — I beg a...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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Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue

Stephen H. Browne - History - 1993 - 172 pages
...obliged to ask — "Sir, your name?" — "Sir, you have the advantage of me." — "Mr. Such-a-one." — "I beg a thousand pardons." — I venture to say,...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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On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters

Edmund Burke - Political Science - 2000 - 540 pages
...same boards stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, — "Sir, your name?" — "Sir, you have the advantage of me." — "Mr. Such a one." — "I...how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed. But just as naturally, Burke 's characterizations may come to life in a sudden cartoon,...
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