 I am amazed at his grace's speech. The noble duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble peer who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not...  Table-talk on Books, Men, and Manners - עמוד 91נערך על ידי - 1853 - 229 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 דפים
...him, without seeing some noble peer who owes his seat in this House to successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that...duke is as applicable and as insulting as it is to me.' In the olden time, a forensic career afforded no presumption whatever of a plebeian origin. So... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 דפים
...without seeing some nob'le peer who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as honorable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident? To all these noble lords the... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1859 - 356 דפים
...successful exertions in the profession to which 23 I belong. Does he not feel that it as honorable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an...applicable and as insulting as it is to myself. But 1 don't fear to meet it single and alone. No one venerates the peerage more than I do ; but, my lords,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1860 - 576 דפים
...him, without seeing some noble peer who owes his seat in this House to successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that...Duke is as applicable and as insulting as it is to me.' i In the olden time, a forensic career afforded no presumption whatever of a plebeian origin.... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1860 - 216 דפים
...without seeing some noble peer, who owes his seat in this House to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that...to these, as to being the accident of an accident ? No one venerates the peerage more than I do. But, my Lords, I must say that the peerage solicited... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1904 - 600 דפים
...without seeing some other peer who owes his seat in this house to the profession to which I belong. To all these noble lords the language of the noble Duke is as insulting as it is to myself. Does he not think it as honourable to owe a seat in this house to that... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - 1861 - 650 דפים
...him, without seeing some noble [«T who owes bis seat in this house to successful-exertions :n the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that...honourable to owe it to these as to being the accident "fan accident? To all these noble lords the language of •he noble duke is as applicable and insulting... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 דפים
...him, without seeing some noble Peer who owes his seat in this House to successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that...applicable and as insulting as it is to myself. But I don't fear to meet it single and alone. No one venerates the Peerage more than I do ; but, my Lords,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 378 דפים
...seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel it is as honourable to owe it to these, as to being...applicable and as insulting as it is to myself. But I don't fear to meet it single and alone. No one venerates the peerage more than I do, — but, my lords,... | |
 | 1864 - 744 דפים
...him, without seeing some noble peer who owes his seat in this house to his honorable exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as honorable to owe it to theee as to being the accident of an accident ? To all these noble lords the... | |
| |
