 | Oratory - 1808 - 546 pages
...frame and constitution of the company, which extended the sordid principles of their origin over all their successive operations, connecting with their...bloody sceptre, and the little traffic of a merchant's counting houfe ; wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a poclet with the other." — . Mr.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Thus it was, that a government was exhibited, uniting the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little...truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other. From the facts he had stated, Mr. Sheridan inferred, that the begums had not given disturbance... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1811 - 506 pages
...hand; and a priuce dethroned lor ''the balance of an account. Thus a government was exhibited, uniting the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, "and the little traffic of a merchant's counting house , " wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a " pocket ;jvith the other." This... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1816 - 744 pages
...frame and constitution of the Company, which extended the sordid principles of their origin over all their successive operations, connecting with their...bloody sceptre, and the little traffic of a merchant's counting-- house, — wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other. .Mr.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...frame and constitution of the company, which extended the sordid principles of their origin over all their successive operations , connecting with their...bloody sceptre, and the little traffic of a merchant's counting* house, wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other. Mr. Sheridan... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1816 - 422 pages
...successive operations ; connecting with their civil policy, and even with their boldest acbieve. ments, the meanness of a pedlar, and the profligacy of pirates....majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little traffic of a merchants counting-house, wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other.... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1816 - 428 pages
...political and the military line could be observed auctioneering am bassadors and trading generals;—and thus we saw a revolution brought about by affidavits...majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little traffic of a merchants counting-house, wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other.... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...an arrest; a town besieged on a note of hand; a prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Tbus it was they exhibited a government, which united the...truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other. Mr. Sheridan now went into a long statement to shew the various irrefragable proofs exhibited... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...could be observed auctioneering ambassadors and trading generals ; — and thus we saw a revolntion brought about by affidavits ; an army employed in...majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little traffic of a merchant* counting-house, wielding a truncheon with one hand, ami picking a pocket with the other.... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1820 - 510 pages
...hand ; and a prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Thus a government was exhibited, uniting the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little...truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other." This energetic, grand, and splendid display of eloquence was closed by the following peroration... | |
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Alike in the political and the military line could be observed auctioneering ambassadors and trading generals ; — and thus we saw a revolution brought about by affidavits; an army employed in executing an arrest; a town besieged on a note of hand; a... 
