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
| Martin Haverty - 1867 - 798 ページ
...the 8th of June, 1799, he writes: " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negociating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven....am supported only by the reflection that without a onion the British empire must be dissolved." The now published correspondence both of lord Castlereagh... | |
| Henry Allon - 1859 - 740 ページ
...of winning over the Irish Parliament by corruption. t ' My occupation,' ho wrote to General Ross, ' is now of the most unpleasant nature — ' negotiating...am supported only by the reflection that ' without an Union the British empire must ha dissolved.' During the summer and autumn of 17!J!) the Government... | |
| Charles Knight - 1870 - 1038 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... | |
| 1871 - 756 ページ
...most cursed of all situations. How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court !" " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature...am supported only by the reflection that without a Union the llriii.-h empire must be dissolved." To attempt to give in our narrow space a detailed account... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1871 - 388 ページ
...most repugnant to my feelings. How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court ! ' ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported N only by the reflection that without an Union the British empire must be dissolved.' * Castlereagh,... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1871 - 382 ページ
...most repugnant to my feelings. How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court ! ' ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported N only by the reflection that without an Union the British empire must be dissolved.' * Castlereagh,... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1872 - 348 ページ
...most repugnant to my feelings. How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court ! ' ' 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.' l Castlereagh, however, who was the more immediate... | |
| Martin Haverty - 1872 - 794 ページ
...the 8th of June, 1799, he writes: " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negociating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven....am supported only by the reflection that without a union the British empire must be dissolved." The now published correspondence both of lord Castlereagh... | |
| William John Fitz-Patrick - 1872 - 412 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...with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work." * When Miss Moore heard this dark suspicion mooted,... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1874 - 546 ページ
...Viceroy, ' to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court. My occupation is to negociate and job with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise...am supported only by the reflection that without a Union the British Empire must be dissolved. Nothing but a conviction that a Union is absolutely necessary... | |
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