... 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 136by Republican Congressional Committee - 1882 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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