 My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Strona 1491886Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Richard Barry O'Brien - 1905 - Liczba stron: 350
...nature to my feelings. . . . My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and iobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise...myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work. ... It has ever been the wish of my life to avoid all this dirty business; and I am now involved in... | |
 | Charles Whibley - 1906 - Liczba stron: 410
...politician, deplored the circumstances, strange to him, in which he was placed. " My occupation," he wrote, " is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating...am supported only by the reflection that without a Union the British Empire must be dissolved." Castlereagh, on the other hand, believed so strongly in... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1887 - Liczba stron: 892
...the ferocity of the loyalists will not for a longtime permit the restoration of perfect tranquillity. My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...am supported only by the reflection that without a Union the British Empire must be dissolved." f On the i9th June — " Nothing but a conviction that... | |
 | William Kirby Sullivan - 1907 - Liczba stron: 606
...were also at work. and, while corrupting, he moaned over the corruptness of the Unionist proselytes. " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature...myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work. . . ." "The demands of our friends rise in proportion to the appearance of strength on the other side.... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1907 - Liczba stron: 720
...wish of his life to " avoid all this dirty business," and on January 21 he wrote to the same man — " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature...myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work. . . . " l These were the means the Government employed to force the union of the two Legislatures.... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1911 - Liczba stron: 654
...whom he had to conciliate. — " I despise and hate myself every hour," so Cornwallis wrote to Ross, " for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union, the British Empire must be dissolved." ' 1 "Cornwallis Corresp.," iii, 101, 102, 226; "Castlereagh... | |
 | Thomas Hobbs Maginniss - 1913 - Liczba stron: 154
...the safety of the British empire could make me endure the shocking task which is imposed on me. — I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work. — How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court!" The methods employed to bring... | |
 | THOMAS HOBBS MAGINNISS JR. - 1913 - Liczba stron: 146
...the safety of the British empire could make me endure the shocking task which is imposed on me.—I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work.— How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court!" The methods employed to bring about... | |
 | George Sigerson - 1919 - Liczba stron: 252
...Reports from Committee of Secrecy." London ; April, 1801). Assize courts were also at work. proselytes. " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature...myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work. . . ." " The demands of our friends rise in proportion to the appearance of strength on the other side.... | |
 | Laurence Ginnell - 1921 - Liczba stron: 144
...I repent that I did not return to Bengal." Writing on the 8th June, 1799, to General Ross, he says, "My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work." It must be remembered that titles and offices at the public expense were distributed as lavishly as... | |
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