 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 - 149 ページ1886全文表示 - この書籍について
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 ページ
...existence ; and, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to save the country.' And again, June 8 :— ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands... | |
 | Charles Cornwallis Marquis Cornwallis - 1859 - 640 ページ
...ferocity of the Loyalists will not for a long time permit the restoration of perfect tranquillity. My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands... | |
 | 1859 - 578 ページ
...existence ; and, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to save the country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 ページ
...country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating1 and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven....and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. "When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands... | |
 | 1859 - 650 ページ
...existence; And, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to nave the country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most eorrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 ページ
...existence ; and, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to save the country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing witli the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 654 ページ
...mutual interest and affection " was described by lord Cornwallis in a letter of the 8th of June : " 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." t On the 29th of March, lord Cornwallis deprecated, in... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 ページ
...mutual interest and affection " was described by lord Cornwallis in a letter of the £¡th of June : " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and l¡ate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work ; and am supported only by the reflection,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 946 ページ
...called " the management of the country" out of their hands. On the 8th of June, lord Cornwallis wrote, "My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven." The system of "negotiating and jobbing" had to be worked by promising an Irish peerage, or a lift in... | |
 | William John Fitzpatrick - 1866 - 336 ページ
...service in the hands of Lord Cornwallis. " My occupation", writes this nobleman on 8th June, 1799, " is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating...jobbing with the most corrupt people under Heaven. J despise myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work". And again : " How I long to kick those... | |
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