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" The truth is, the peers were in a fright. 'Twas a pity; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. "
The Mutiny of the Bengal Army: An Historical Narrative - Page 105
by George Bruce Malleson - 1858 - 215 pages
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Coningsby; Or, The New Generation, Volume 1

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1844 - 340 pages
...leaders of the people, now, generally follow. The truth is, the peers were in a fright. 'Twas a pity; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. Among the most intimate companions of Coningsby at Eton, was Lord Henry Sydney, his kinsman. Coningsby...
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Coningsby, Or, The New Generation

Benjamin Disraeli - 1844 - 168 pages
...prudence. T-hfiJeaders of-ttö>, f"llnw- The truth is, the^.. ' .. .. peers were in a fright. 'Twas a pity: there is)' scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician : in a panic. Among the most intimate companions of Coningsby at Eton, was Lord Henry Sydney, his kinsman. Coningsby...
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A Few Words Anent the R̀ed' Pamphlet: By One who Has Served Under the Marquis ...

Charles Allen (of the Bengal civil service.), George Bruce Malleson - India - 1858 - 256 pages
...their services again, the Government would accept them. This compromise was arranged, and on the 12th of June Lord Canning announced, that having received...of this aphorism could have doubted no longer, had he witnessed the living panorama of Calcutta on the 14th June. All was panic, disorder, and dismay....
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The Novels & Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli ...: Coningsby. Henrietta ...

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1866 - 730 pages
...leaders of the people, now, generally follow. The truth is, the peers were in a fright. "Twas a pity; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. Among the most intimate companions of Coningsby at Eton, was Lord Henry Sydney, hia kinsman. Coningsby...
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The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted ..., Volume 24

Robert Hall Baynes - 1878 - 672 pages
...leaders of the people, now, generally follow. The truth is, the peers were in a fright. 'Twas a pity ; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic." In words like the following we get a key to much of his action. "After the peace of 1815, the people...
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Collected edition of the novels and tales by ... B. Disraeli, Volume 2

Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1870 - 650 pages
...leaders of the people, now, generally follow. The truth is, the peers were in a fright. 'Twas a pity; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. Among the most intimate companions of Coningsby at Eton, was Lord Henry Sydney, his kinsman. Coningsby...
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Novels and tales. (Hughenden ed.)

Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 498 pages
...leaders of the people, now, generally follow. The truth is, the peers were in a fright. 'Twas a pity ; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. Among the most intimate companions of Coningsby at Eton, was Lord Henry Sydney, his kinsman. Coningsby...
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Coningsby

Benjamin Disraeli - 1881 - 590 pages
...leaders of the people, now, generally follow. The truth is, the peers were in a fright. 'Twas a pity ; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. Among the most intimate companions of Coningsby at Eton, was Lord Henry Sydney, his kinsman. Coningsby...
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Memories of the Mutiny, Volume 2

Francis Cornwallis Maude, John Walter Sherer - India - 1894 - 324 pages
...most palatial quarter of " The ('ity of Palaces," described what he saw from the top of his house. " It has been said, by a great writer, that there is...The veriest sceptic as to the truth of this aphorism cou'd have doubted no longer had he witnessed the living panorama of Calcutta on the 14th June. All...
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Memories of the Mutiny, Volume 2

Francis Cornwallis Maude, John Walter Sherer - India - 1894 - 316 pages
...most palatial quarter of " The City of Palaces," described what he saw from the top of his house. " It has been said, by a great writer, that there is scarcely a less dignified entity ihan a ' Patrician in a Panic.' The. veriest sceptic as to the truth of this aphorism could have doubted...
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Captains of the World

Gwendolen Overton - 1904 - 390 pages
...was another British statesman who assured us, in one of the novels with which he diverted himself, that there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. But the least claim or move from the lower classes, the least hint of reform, has always managed to...
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The Works of Benjamin Disraeli: Coningsby, v. 1

Benjamin Disraeli - English literature - 1904 - 448 pages
...leaders of the people, now, generally follow. The truth is, the peers were in a fright. Twas a pity; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. Among the most intimate companions of Coningsby at Eton, was Lord Henry Sydney, his kinsman. Coningsby...
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Young England: Being Vivian Grey, Coningsby, Sybil, Tancred, Volume 2

Benjamin Disraeli - 1904 - 652 pages
...leaders of the people, now generally follow. The truth is, the peers were in a fright. 'Twas a pity ; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. Among the most intimate companions of Coningsby at Eton, was Lord Henry Sydney, his kinsman. Coningsby...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 207

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1907 - 794 pages
...went too far and too fast. • 1 The truth is (he says), the peers were in a fright. 'Twas a pity ; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. . . . An emboldened House of Commons passed a vote which struck without disguise at the rival power...
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The Seymour Family

Amy Audrey Locke - 1914 - 428 pages
...immediately crossed the Alps and travelled to England . . . the Peers were in a fright. 'Twas a pity ; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic.' Turning to the correspondence between Lord Hertford and Mr. Croker in 1831 and 1832, we find Lord Hertford...
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The Passing of the Great Reform Bill

James Ramsay Montagu Butler - Great Britain - 1914 - 498 pages
...Chancellor was hooted by the Tories ; lovely peeresses trembled for their lives. If, as Disraeli tells us, " there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic," a patrician in a passion cannot be far behind. Brougham, who had left what he describes as a " beargarden...
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The Seymour Family

Amy Audrey Locke - 1914 - 428 pages
...immediately crossed the Alps and travelled to England . . . the Peers were in a fright. 'Twas a pity ; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic.' Turning to the correspondence between Lord Hertford and Mr. Croker in 1831 and 1832, we find Lord Hertford...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 207

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1907 - 646 pages
...measure went too far and too fast. ' The truth is (he says), the peers were in a fright. 'Twas a pity ; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. . . . An emboldened House of Commons passed a vote which struck without disguise at the rival power...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 207

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1907 - 630 pages
...measure went too far and too fast. ' The truth is (he says), the peers were hi a fright. 'Twas a pity ; there is scarcely a less dignified entity than a patrician in a panic. . . . An emboldened House of Commons passed a vote which struck without disguise at the rival power...
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