 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1849 - 348 pages
...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 changes he stood immutable as adamant. 5. It mattered little whether in the field' or in the drawingroom'; with the mob' or the levee'; wearing... | |
 | 318 pages
...nations were his ontposts ; 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 in the drawing room ; with the... | |
 | G. H. Wood - 1853 - 302 pages
...people; nations were his outposts; and he disposed of courts, crowns, camps, 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 a... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 350 pages
...and he disposed of courts', and crowns', and camps', and churches , and cabinets', aa if they were titular dignitaries of the chessboard. Amid all these changes he stood immutable as adamant. 5. It mattered little whether in the field' or in the drawingroom'; with the mob' or the levee'; wearing... | |
 | 1855 - 570 pages
...people — nations were his outposts ; and he disposed of courts, crowns, camps, churches, and cabinets, as if they were the titular dignitaries of the chessboard....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... | |
 | 1855 - 570 pages
...people—nations were his outposts ; and he disposed of courts, crowns, camps, churches, and cabinets, as if they were the titular dignitaries of the chessboard....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... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 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...adamant. It mattered little whether in the field or in the drawingroom — with the mob 01 the levee — wearing the Jacobin bonnet or the iron crown —... | |
 | Irish orations (English) - 1857 - 564 pages
...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 chess-board...room—with the mob or the levee—wearing the jacobin bonnel or the iron crown—banishing a Braganza, or espousing a Hapsburgh— dictating peace on a raft... | |
 | A member of the bar - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1857 - 562 pages
...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 chess-board...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 a... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...his out-posts"; and he disposed of courts", and crowns", and camps", and churches", and cabinets', as if they were the titular dignitaries of the chessboard"!...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";... | |
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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!... 
