 I am so enchanted with the ordinary English behaviour of these invaluable persons, that I earnestly pray no opportunity may be given them for Roman valour, and for those very un-Roman pensions, which they would all, of course, take especial care to claim...  The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches - Page 43by Sydney Smith - 1852 - 226 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 590 pages
...that I earnestly pray no opportunity may be given them for Roman valour and for those very on-Roman pensions which they would all, of course, take especial care to claim in consequence.' A Tory of those days could hardly have been expected to relish the allusions to Lord Amherst, the Duke... | |
 | 1842 - 748 pages
...of these invaluable persons, that 1 earnestly pray that no opportunity may be given them for Roman valour, and for those very un-Roman pensions which...course, take especial care to claim in consequence," &c. The exclusion of the Catholics from Parliament is thus illustrated, and the presumed danger of... | |
 | 1843 - 818 pages
...behaviour of these invaluable persons, that I earnestly pray no opportunity may be given them for Roman valour, and "for those very un-Roman pensions which they would all, of course, take especial care to elaim in consequence. —Plymley't Letters, p. 408-10. The dutiful variation of Mr. Smith's political... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 388 pages
...behaviour of these invaluable persons, that I earnestly pray no opportunity may be given them for Roman valour, and for those very un-Roman pensions which...enemies, I should still say, that at such a crisis you want the affections of all your subjects in both • There is nothing more objectionable in Plymley's... | |
 | 1915 - 862 pages
...since an English pig has fallen in fair battle upon English ground, or a farm-house been rifled. . . . But, whatever was our conduct — if every ploughman was as great a hero as he was called from his oxen to save Rome from her enemies — i should still say that, at such a crisis,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1845 - 496 pages
...behaviour of these invaluable persons, that I earnestly pray no opportunity may be given them for Roman valour, and for those very un-Roman pensions which...enemies, I should still say, that at such a crisis you want the affections of all your subjects in both islands: there is no spirit which you must alienate,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1845 - 696 pages
...behaviour of these invaluable persons, that I earnestly pray no opportunity may be given them for Roman valour, and for those very un-Roman pensions which...enemies, I should still say, that at such a crisis you want the affections of all your subjects in both islands ; there is no spirit which* you must alienate,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1845 - 682 pages
...that I earnestly pray no opportunity may be given them for Roman valour, and for those very un- Roman pensions which they would all, of course, take especial...enemies, I should still say, that at such a crisis you want the affections of all your subjects in both islands ; there is no spirit which you must alienate,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1845 - 686 pages
...that I earnestly pray no opportunity may be given them for Roman valour, and for those very un-Roinan pensions which they would all, of course, take especial...enemies, I should still say, that at such a crisis you want the affections of all your subjects in both islands ; there is no spirit which you must alienate,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...of these invaluable persons, that I earnestly pray no opportunity may be given them for Roman valor, and for those very un-Roman pensions which they would...course, take especial care to claim in consequence. In a speech delivered in Taunton, in 1831, he thus ridicules the attempt of the lords to stop the PROGRESS... | |
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