 ... 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
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...and were obliged to ask, ' Sir, your name ? — Sir, you have the advantage of me ; Mr. Such-a-one— ature of in their lives until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...were obliged to ask, " Sir, your name ? — Sir, you have the advantage of me — Mr. Such-a-one — t they ought to attempt, or that they are able to...sentiments, weak perhaps, but honest and unbiassed ; and truckle-bed.* " Sir, in consequence of this arrangement, having put so much the larger part of his... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - Great Britain - 1837 - 694 pages
...your name ? Sir, you have the advantage of me. — Mr. Such-a-one. — I beg a thou- 'to 1767. sand pardons.' I venture to say it did so happen, that...how, pigging together heads and points in the same truckle-bed."* But the most singular feature in this arrangement was the part Mr. Pitt took himself.... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 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...who had never spoke to each other in their lives." Upon such a slippery pedestal did this eminent man expect to exalt himself to the gaze of the multitude,... | |
 | 1840 - 700 pages
...were obliged to ask, "Sir, your name ? — Sir, you have the advantage of me — Mr. Sach-a-one — I beg a thousand pardons." I venture to say it did...found themselves they knew not how, pigging together, lifMl" and points, in the same truckle-bud.' — .v/<. on Amer. Tax. We cannot omit extracting the... | |
 | 1840 - 512 pages
...this ministry, ho thus specially alludes to the joint appointment of Lord North and Mr. Cooke: — ' I venture to say, it did so happen that persons had...knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in th< sane truckle-bed.' (Speech on Amenran Taxation.) I»rd Rurkingham had previously offered him the... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 pages
...me — Mr. Such-a-one — I beg a thousand panions.* 1 venture to say it did so huppen, thai peisons had a single office divided between them, who had...their lives; until they found themselves, they knew no', how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-beil." — Sp. on „îmir. Tax.... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...you have the advantage of me. — Mr Such~a-one — I beg a thousand pardons. I venture to say that it did so happen, that persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoken to each other in their lives." Burke, on the fall of his friends, withdrew for a fewmonths to... | |
 | George Croly - Politicians - 1840 - 334 pages
...you have the advantage of me. — Mr Such-a-one — I beg a thousand pardons. I venture to say that it did so happen, that persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoken to each other in their lives." Burke, on the fall of his friends, withdrew for a few months... | |
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