 | S. S. Hamill - Elocution - 1886 - 390 pages
...outposts, and he disposed of courts and crowns and camps and churches and cabinets as if they were titular dignitaries of the chess-board. Amid all these changes he stood immutable as adamant. 6. It mattered little whether in the field or in the drawingroom, with the mob or the levee, wearing... | |
 | William T. Ross - Elocution - 1887 - 362 pages
...victory — his flight from Egypt confirmed his destiny — ruin itself only elevated him to empire. Amid all these changes he stood immutable as adamant. It mattered little whether in the field or the drawing-room, with the mob or the lev£e, wearing the Jacobin bonnet or the iron crown — banishing... | |
 | Literature - 1897 - 328 pages
...outposts; and he disposed of courts, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were titular dignitaries of the chess-board. Amid all these...adamant. It mattered little whether in the field or in the drawing-room — with the mob or the levee — wearing the Jacobin bonnet or the iron crown... | |
 | Readers - 1902 - 424 pages
...outposts, and he disposed of courts and crowns and camps and churches and cahinets as if they were titular dignitaries of the chessboard. Amid all these changes he stood immutable as adamant. 6. It mattered little whether in the field or in the drawingroom, with the mob or the levee, wearing... | |
 | Cora Marsland - Readers - 1902 - 272 pages
...dignitaries of the chessboard! It mattered little whether in the field or in the drawingroom—with the mob or the levee—wearing the jacobin bonnet or the iron crown—banishing a Braganza, or espousing a Hapsburg—dictating peace on a raft to the Czar of Russia, or contemplating... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1905 - 872 pages
...outposts ; and he disposed of courts, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were titular dignitaries of the chessboard. Amid all these...adamant. It mattered little whether in the field or in the drawing-room, with the mob or the levee, wearing the Jacobin bonnet or the iron crown, banishing... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Irish literature - 1904 - 530 pages
...were his outposts — and he disposed of courts, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were the titular dignitaries of the chess-board ! Amid all these changes, he stood as immutable as adamant. It mattered little whether in the field or the drawing-room — with the mob... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1906 - 278 pages
...nations were his outposts; and he disposed of couics, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were the titular dignitaries of the chess-board...adamant. It mattered little whether in the field or the drawing-room — with the mob or the levee — wearing the jacobin bonnet or the iron crown — banishing... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers - 1909 - 426 pages
...outposts; and he disposed of courts, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were titular dignitaries of the chess-board. Amid all these...adamant. It mattered little whether in the field or in the drawing-room, 358 Elson Grammar School Reader Boole Four 60 with the mob or the levee — wearing... | |
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All the visions of antiquity became common places in his contemplation; kings were his people — nations were his outposts; and he disposed of courts, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were the titular dignitaries of the chessboard!... 
