| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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