 | Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 Seiten
...best wife in the world !" Having uttered this brief funeral oration, he went on with his work. 95. How to ask a Favour. — A man who is asking a favour,...wit, than by the most urgent solicitations. Philip the Second, of Spain, had granted a trifling pension to one of his soldiers, who came forward once... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie - 1822 - 614 Seiten
...wine in this country, is in most people's hands : " Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; ' Let him drink port,'...cried — He drank the poison, and his spirit died." Among the papers which have been preserved, is one of a remarkable kind, — a journal of that philosopher... | |
 | 1822 - 430 Seiten
...the high duty on French wine in this country : " Firm and erect the Caledonjap stood : Old was his mutton, and his claret good: ' Let him drink port,'...an English statesman cried — He drank the poison, anJ his spirit died." TO CORRESPONDENT*. RECEIVED.— TA. B., Ju:io, JW Grange.Sc Senior. " Lines on... | |
 | John Home - 1822 - 420 Seiten
...wine in this country, is in most people's hands : " Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; ' Let him drink port,' an English statesman cried — Among the papers which have been preserved, is one of a remarkable kind, — a journal of that... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 Seiten
...high duties on French wines.— " Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and hie claret good ; ' Let him drink port!' an English statesman...cried — He drank the poison, and his spirit died." Explanation by Baron Hume, nephew to the historian : — " John Hume was very strenuous in support... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 624 Seiten
...part. The epigram of John Home was as follows : — ' Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; " Let him drink port," an English statesman cried— lie drank the poison, and his spirit died.' Dr. Adam Fergusson, the author of the History of the Roman... | |
 | Thomas John Graham, Physician - 1829 - 378 Seiten
...to port. " Great and brave the Caledonian stood, " Old was the mutton, and his claret good. " ' Make him drink port,' an English statesman cried : " He drank the poison and his spirit died." him, the head excepted, and, it is said, was the occasion of his general good health otherways. '.... | |
 | 1831 - 472 Seiten
...following : ' Bold and erect the Caledonian stood ; Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; Make him drink port ! an English statesman cried ; He drank the poison, and his spirit died.' " Fortunately, it has since been found by experience, that port is no poison, and that Caledonian spirit... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1831 - 618 Seiten
...the following: Bold and erect the Caledonian stood ; Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; Make him drink port! an English statesman cried, He drank the poison, and his spirit died. Fortunately, it has since been found by experience, that port is no poison, and that Caledonian spirit... | |
 | 1831 - 488 Seiten
...the following: 1 Bold and erect the Caledonian stood ; Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; Make him drink port ! an English statesman cried ; He drank the poison, and bis spirit died.' '• Fortunately, it has since been found by experience, that port is no poison,... | |
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Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and his claret good : ' Let him drink port, 
