 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1857 - 202 pages
...camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were the titulai dignitaries of the chess-board. 9Amid all these changes, he stood immutable as 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 10crown —... | |
 | Thomas Morris - 1858 - 356 pages
...nations 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....adamant. It mattered little, whether in the field or drawing-room, with the mob or at the levee; wearing the Jacobin bonnet or the iron crown; banishing... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 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 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; banishing... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 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....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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 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 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... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 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...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... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 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....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... | |
 | Meetings - 1869 - 182 pages
...were 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 chess-board...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 ;... | |
 | Meetings - 1869 - 186 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...changes, he stood immutable as adamant. It mattered httle whether in the field, or in the drawing-room ; with the mob, or the levee ; wearing the jacobin... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...crowns, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were titular dignitaries of the chess-board I Amid all these changes, he stood immutable as 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!... 
