 | 1826 - 622 Seiten
...; one set of gentlemen met at the Lamb and another at the Lion ; blood and treasure, men breathing war, vengeance, and contempt ; and in eight years...the Ambassador from the United States of America. — Rec. Sidney Smith's Letter to Electors. ROYAL DELICACY. — The King, having one day at dinner... | |
 | 1826 - 918 Seiten
...one set of gentlemen met at the Lamb, and another at the Lion ; ¡blood and treasure, men breathing war, vengeance, and contempt ; and in eight years afterwards, an awkward looking gentleman, iu plain clothes, walked up to the drawing-roota of St. James's, in the midst of the gentlemen of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 Seiten
...: one set of gentlemen met at the Lamb, and another at the Lion ; blood and treasure-men, breathing war, vengeance, and contempt ; and in eight years...James's, in the midst of the gentlemen of the Lion and the Lamb, and was introduced as the ambassador from the United States of America." To those politicians... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 Seiten
...treasure men, breathing WT-, vengeance, and contempt ; and in eight years afterwards, an awkward-looking gentleman in plain clothes walked up to the drawing-room...gentlemen of the Lion and Lamb, and was introduced as the Ainbasxadur from the United States of America. You must forgive me if 1 draw illustrations from common... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 388 Seiten
...and contempt ; and in eight years afterwards, an awkward-looking gentleman in plain clothes walked np to the drawing-room of St. James's, in the midst of...and was introduced as the ambassador from the United Slate* of America. You must forgive me if I draw illustrations from common things — but in seeing... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 Seiten
...; one set of gentlemen met at the Lamb, and another at the Lion: blood and treasure men, breathing war, vengeance, and contempt ; and in eight years...James's, in the midst of the gentlemen of the Lion and the Lamb, and was introduced as the ambassador from the United States of America. Mild and genteel... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 Seiten
...treasure-men, breathing war, vengeance, and contempt ; and in eight years afterwards, an awkward-looking gentleman, in plain clothes, walked up to the drawing-room...James's, in the midst of the gentlemen of the Lion and the Lamb, and was introduced as the ambassador from the United States of America." To those politicians... | |
 | John West - 1852 - 400 Seiten
...; one set of gentlemen met at the Lamb, and another at the Lion : blood and treasure men, breathing war, vengeance, and contempt; and in eight years afterwards,...the ambassador from the United States of America.— Works of Sidney Smith, Vol. III., ft. 336. " If you are told of the existence of discontent in any... | |
 | 1852 - 498 Seiten
...treasure men, breathing war, vengeance, and contempt; and in eight years afterwards, an awkward-looking gentleman in plain clothes walked up to the drawingroom...introduced as the ambassador from the United States of Amrricv. You must forgive me if I draw illustrations from common things — but in seeing swine driven,... | |
 | John West - 1852 - 412 Seiten
...; one set of gentlemen met at the Lamb, and another at the Lion : blood and treasure men, breathing war, vengeance, and contempt ; and in eight years...in plain clothes walked up to the drawing-room of Si. James's, in the midst of the gentlemen of the Lion and Lamb, mid was introduced as the amha.ifalor... | |
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... possibility. There was a period when the slightest concession would have satisfied the Americans ; but all the world was in heroics ; one set of gentlemen met at the Lamb... 
