 | Walter Bagehot - Great Britain - 1889 - 412 pages
...parties. We all know the line which the wit of Brookes's made upon Mr. Canning— The turning of coats so common is grown, That no one would think to attack...But no case until now was so flagrantly known Of a schoolboy's turning his jacket. This meant that it having been said and believed that Mr. Canning,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 466 pages
...all know the line[s] which the wit of Brookes's made upon Mr. Canning, — "The turning of coats so common is grown That no one would think to attack...But no case until now was so flagrantly known Of a schoolboy's turning his jacket." This meant that, it having been said and believed that Mr. Canning,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1902 - 808 pages
...COURTENAY, 1896, Lions in the Twenties, Temple Bar, vol. 107, p. 112. STATESMAN The turning of coats so common is grown, That no one would think to attack it; But no case until now was so flagrantly Of a school-boy turning his jacket. — FITZPATRICK, RICHARD, 1793, On Coining's Desertion of the Whigs.... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - Great Britain - 1903 - 172 pages
...often quoted, may be quoted once again : — " The turning of coats so common is grown, That no man would think to attack it ; But no case until now was...flagrantly known Of a schoolboy turning his jacket." Sheridan, too, had alluded in a speech in the House of Commons not obscurely and, as events turned... | |
 | Harold William Vazeille Temperley - Prime ministers - 1905 - 318 pages
...is alone sufficient disproof: — " The turning of coats so common is grown That no one would wish to attack it, But no case until now was so flagrantly known Of a schoolboy turning his jacket.'' with Pitt on his own initiative and without previous acquaintance, but we now know that Hookham Frere... | |
 | Harold William Vazeille Temperley - Prime ministers - 1905 - 312 pages
...is alone sufficient disproof: — ''The turning of coats so common is grown That no one would wish to attack it, But no case until now was so flagrantly known Of a schoolboy turning his jacket.1' Godwin however certainly knew Canning at this time. — Macvey Napier Sel. Correspondence,... | |
 | Lloyd Charles Sanders - Great Britain - 1908 - 476 pages
...Canning for one, when he decided on throwing in his lot with the Tories : " The turning of coats so common is grown That no one would think to attack...flagrantly known Of a schoolboy turning his jacket." He extolled his friends, as in his well-known, though not very appropriate, lines on Nollekens's bust... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 850 pages
...COURTENAY, 1896, Lions in the Twenties, Temple Bar, vol. 107, p. 112. STATESMAN The turning of coats so common is grown, That no one would think to attack...flagrantly known Of a school-boy turning his jacket. — FITZPATRICK, RICHARD, 1793, On Canning's Desertion of the Whigs. Canning is very irritable, surprisingly... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - Epigrams, English - 1915 - 150 pages
...faith, I will ask for no more. LORD HOLLAND. Canning as Turncoat THE turning of coats so common has grown, That no one would think to attack it ; But...flagrantly known Of a schoolboy turning his jacket. R. FITZPATRICK. On Canning and Frere AT Eton School brought up with dull boys, We shone like men among... | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy - Great Britain - 1920 - 360 pages
...Fitzpatrick : The turning of coats so common is grown. That no one would think to attempt it. But in no case until now was so flagrantly known Of a schoolboy turning his jacket. Where Chamberlain's powerful individuality manifested itself lies in the fact that, while in turn he... | |
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The turning of coats so common is grown, That no one would think to attack it ; But no case until now was so flagrantly known Of a schoolboy's turning his jacket. 
