 | Law - 1875 - 462 pages
...exclaimed: "As a man — I am at this moment as respectable, — I beg leave to add, — I am at this moment as much respected — as the proudest peer I now look down upon ; " — although that proud assembly then and always afterward quailed and shrank before him, yet they... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales.) - 1876 - 244 pages
...considered — as a MAN — I am at this moment as respectable — I beg leave to add, I am at this moment as much respected — as the proudest peer I now look down upon." 'Perhaps, had the Duke of Grafton thought of Swift's lines on The Old Gentry, his lips would never... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...considered— as a man — I am at this moment as respectable— I beg leave to add, I am at this moment uit and buckled shoe. On damask -cushions, set in fringe, All rev MR CHARLES BuTLER,an Englishbarrister of some distinction (1750-1832), in his Reminiscences says :... | |
 | Joshua Hall McIlvaine - Elocution - 1876 - 414 pages
...which charact r none can deny me, as a man—I am at this moment as respectable, I beg leave to add, as much respected, as the proudest peer I now look down upon. § 205. Animated expressions of uncertainty, hesitation, surprise and irony, range through intervals... | |
 | English literature - 1877 - 626 pages
...an affront to be considered, as a man, I am at this moment as respectable,— I beg leave to add, I am at this time as much respected, as the proudest peer I now look down upon." ' Dunning (Lord Ashburton) was an excellent debater, and, despite of marked physical disadvantages,... | |
 | 1877 - 626 pages
...an affront to be considered, as a man, I am at this moment as respectable, — I beg leave to add, I am at this time as much respected, as the proudest peer I now look down upon." ' Dunning (Lord Ashburton) was an excellent debater, and, despite of marked physical disadvantages,... | |
 | English literature - 1877 - 612 pages
...an affront to be considered, as a man, I am at this moment as respectable, — I beg kave to add, I am at this time as much respected, as the proudest peer I now look down upon." ' Dunning (Lord Ashburton) was an excellent debater, and, despite of marked physical disadvantages,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...deny me — as a man, I am at this moment as respectable ; I beg leave to add, I am at this moment Nimmo * Mr Coombe, one of his competitors, who had died suddenly tbe evening before. CHARLES JAMES FOX. 1749-1806.... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...deny me — as a man, I am at this moment as respectable ; I beg leave to add, I am at this moment w 9{ {/ < 61 !, $ qۛ I M G Z AD*= D/ s ֙ ) * Mr Coombe, one of his competitors, who had died suihlcnly the evening before. CHAELES JAMES FOX.... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1879 - 358 pages
...character none can deny me, as a MAN, — I am at this moment as respectable, — I beg leave to add, I am as much respected, — as the proudest Peer I now look down upon! \ \ 3. PARLIAMENT ART REFORM, 1831.— Lord Brougham. My Lords, I do not disguise | the intense \ solicitude... | |
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Seal, as guardian of his Majesty's conscience, as Lord High Chancellor of England — nay, even in that character alone in which the noble Duke would think it an affront to be considered... 
