 ... 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
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...truckle under. "It did so happen that persons had a single office between them, that had never spoken to each other in their lives; until they found themselves,...how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed."— Edmund Burke, speech on American taxation (1774). dhreibh: drive. Gc, drift, snowdrift;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 pages
...ask, — " Sir, your name ? "— " Sir, you have the advantage of me." — " Mr. Sueh-a-one." — " I beg a thousand pardons." — I venture to say, it...had a single office divided between them, who had William Pitty First Earl of Chatham From a painting by WiUhffi Hoarc, BA, In the National Portrait... | |
 | William Murison - English language - 1926 - 452 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 suitable prose passages will be found in The... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1913 - 220 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." Compare note to "this desultory and disconnected part" (p. 98). PAGE 35 ferment : agitation.... | |
 | Arthur D. Innes - 1914 - 308 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 pages
...ask, — " Sir, your name ? " — " Sir, you have the advantage of me." — " Mr. Such-a-one." — "I beg a thousand pardons." — I venture to say,...had a single office divided between them, who had William Pitt, First Earl of Chatham From a painting by William Hoare, RA, in the National Portrait... | |
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...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 so happen, 10 that persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their... | |
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