 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1899 - 500 pages
...my friends eneourage me in this ambition, as thinking it will redound very mueh to my honor. "I nm delighted to see the daily and hourly progress of madness and folly and wiekedness in England. The eonsummation of these qualities are the true ingredients for making a fine... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1901 - 222 pages
...rascally mob subdued! I think I am not too old to despair of being witness to all these blessings. " I am delighted to see the daily and hourly progress...especially if followed by some signal and ruinous convulsion—as I hope will soon be the case with that pernicious people 1" Even from the secure haven... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 pages
...rascally mob subdued ! I think I am not too old to despair of being witness to all these blessings. " 1 am delighted to see the daily and hourly progress...these qualities are the true ingredients for making a tine narrative in history, especially if followed by some signal and ruinous convulsion — as I hope... | |
 | James Orr - 1903 - 268 pages
...least appearance of provocation on our part." 3 Now we find him denouncing to Sir Gilbert Elliot " the daily and hourly progress of madness, and folly, and wickedness in England," 4 and declaring, " Our Government has become a chimera, and is too perfect, in point of liberty, for... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1907 - 390 pages
...wickedness in England," he wrote from Edinburgh. " The consummation of these fine qualities are the ingredients for making a fine narrative in history,...that pernicious people. He must be a very bad cook who cannot make a palatable dish from the whole." The duel between Chatham and Grafton took place during... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 234 pages
...rascally mob subdued ! I think I am not too old to despair of being witness to all these blessings. " I am delighted to see the daily and hourly progress...these qualities are the true ingredients for making a tine narrative in history, especially if followed by some signal and ruinous convulsion—as I hope... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1914 - 344 pages
...rascally mob subdued ! I think I am not too old to despair of being witness to all these blessings. " I am delighted to see the daily and hourly progress...will soon be the case with that pernicious people ! " Even from the secure haven of James's Court, the maledictions continue to pour forth: — "Nothing... | |
 | Elinor Wylie - 1923 - 310 pages
...which must be taken with a salty grain of reminder that Mr. Hume was a Scotchman and an historian: "I am delighted to see the daily and hourly progress...ingredients for making a fine narrative in history." It is not improbable that Gerald saw these sentiments soon after they were penned; if so he certainly... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1911 - 540 pages
...All my friends encourage me in this ambition, as thinking it will redound very much to my honour. " I am delighted to see the daily and hourly progress...England. The consummation of these qualities are the true The elements of a political convulsion had, indeed, long been brewing. An obstinate court ; an enraged... | |
 | Elinor Wylie - 1923 - 312 pages
...which must be taken with a salty grain of reminder that Mr. Hume was a Scotchman and an historian: "I am delighted to see the daily and hourly progress...ingredients for making a fine narrative in history." It is not improbable that Gerald saw these sentiments soon after they were penned; if so he certainly... | |
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I am delighted to see the daily and hourly progress of madness and folly and wickedness in England. The consummation of these qualities are the true ingredients for making a fine narrative in history... 
