 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1877 - Počet stránok 812
...jocular, he is strong ; when he is serious, he is like Samson in a wig. Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation,...is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out of the highest metre, I do most readily admit.' He certainly said some very injudicious things... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - Počet stránok 516
...universally allowed to be a person of a very good understanding ; call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation,...is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out of the highest order, I do most readily admit." As it happens, Canning was not a diner-out... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - Počet stránok 522
...of a very good understanding ; call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the afikirs of a great nation, and it seems to me as absurd as...is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out of the highest order, I do most readily admit." As it happens, Canning was not a diner-out... | |
 | John Diprose - 1878 - Počet stránok 336
...like Samson in a wig. Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the QUID PRO QUO. 51 affairs of a great nation, and it seems to me as absurd...butterfly were to teach bees to make honey. That he was an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out of the highest lustre, I do most readily... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - Počet stránok 1116
...like Samson in a wig,—any ordinary person is a match for him. Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation,...he is an extraordinary writer of small poetry and a diner-out of the highest lustre, I do most readily admit. But you may as well feed me with decayed... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - Počet stránok 1114
...like Samson in a wig, — any ordinary person is a match for him. Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation,...he is an extraordinary writer of small poetry and a diner-out of the highest lustre, I do most readily admit. Hut you may as well feed me with decayed... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1903 - Počet stránok 172
...universally allowed to be a person of a very good understanding : call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation,...if a butterfly were to teach bees to make honey." Moreover, as regards Addington, Canning made the grievous blunder of seriously underrating his opponent.... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1904 - Počet stránok 296
...Canning.— " To call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation, seems to me as absurd as if a butterfly were to teach...is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out 'of the highest lustre, I do most readily admit. . . . The Foreign Secretary is a gentleman—a... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - 1905 - Počet stránok 380
...call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation," he says, " seems to me as absurd as if a butterfly were to teach the bees to make honey. That he is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner out of the... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1923 - Počet stránok 506
...' to call Canning a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation, was as absurd as if a butterfly were to teach bees to make honey '. Lord Goderich, who took the Treasury on Canning's 1 Copley was born at Boston, Mass., in 1772. 'When... | |
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... understanding; call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation, and it seems to me as absurd as if a butterfly were to teach bees to make honey. 
