 I care not what may be the position of a man who never originates an idea — a watcher of the atmosphere, a man who, as he says, takes his observations, and when he finds the wind in a certain quarter, trims to suit it.  Beaconsfield - Page 77by Walter Sichel - 1904 - 212 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Doubleday - Great Britain - 1856 - 552 pages
...observations, and when he finds the wind veers towards a certain quarter, trims to suit it. Such a person may be a powerful minister ; but he is no more ' a...' a great whip ! ' Both are disciples of progress, to be sure. Both perhaps may get a good place. (Cheers and laughter.) But how far the original momentum... | |
 | William Nassau Molesworth - Great Britain - 1874 - 424 pages
...takes his observations, and when he finds the wind in « certain quarter, trims his sails to suit it. Such a man may be a powerful minister, but he is no more a great statesman than a man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip.' This specimen is sufficient. In this strain he... | |
 | William Nassau Molesworth - Great Britain - 1874 - 428 pages
...takes his observations, and when he finds the wind in acertain quarter, trims his sails to suit it. Such a man may be a powerful minister, but he is no more a great statesman than a man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip.' This specimen is sufficient. In this strain he... | |
 | Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1876 - 604 pages
...position of a man who never originates an idea. .... Such a person may he a powerful minister, buthe is no more a great statesman than the man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip. Both arc disciples of progress. Both, perhaps, may get a good place. . . . Thro w your eyes over the Treasury... | |
 | William Robertson (of Rochdale.) - 1877 - 568 pages
...takes his observations, and when he finds the wind in a certain quarter trims his sails to suit it. Such a man may be a powerful minister, but he is no more a great statesman than a man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip." Twelve nights were occupied in debating the second... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Gran Bretana - Historia, 1837-1901 - 1879 - 350 pages
...and when he finds the wind in a particular quarter trims his sails to suit it;" and he declared that "such a man may be a powerful minister, but he is...man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip." "The opportune," says Mr. Disraeli himself in his 'Lord George Bentinck,' "in a popular assembly has... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1879 - 460 pages
...when he finds the wind in a particular quarter trims his sails to suit it ; ' and he declared that ' such a man may be a powerful minister, but he is no...man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip.' ' The opportune,' says Mr. Disraeli himself in his ' Lord George Bentinck,' ' in a popular assembly... | |
 | Thomas Power O'Connor - Great Britain - 1879 - 736 pages
...Peel as "a man who never originates an idea—a watcher of the atmosphere." "Such a person," he added, "may be a powerful Minister, but he is no more a great...man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip." i It will have been observed that many of Mr. Disraeli's attacks on Sir Robert Peel are founded on... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - Statesmen - 1879 - 378 pages
...trims to suit it." He might be a powerful Minister, but it was said with a bitter sneer that he was no more a great statesman than the man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip ; " both may, perhaps, get a good place," laughed his terrible assailant, " but how far the original momentum... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1880 - 572 pages
...and when he finds the wind in a particular quarter trims his sails to suit it;" and he declared that "such a man may be a powerful minister, but he is...man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip." "The opportune," says Mr. Disraeli himself in his "Lord George Bentinck," " in a popular assembly has... | |
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