| English literature - 1847 - 482 pages
...inimitable magnificence? And yet some fiat-nosed Frank, full of bustle, and puffed up with Sflf-conceit — a race spawned perhaps in the morasses of some northern...great cities, — a single column or obelisk of which the nations export for the prime ornament of their mud-built capitals,— amid arts forgotten, commerce... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1847 - 336 pages
...relics of their inimitable magnificence? Tancred. I. 17 Ainl yet suinc flat-nosed Frank, full uf liustlc and puffed up with self-conceit, — a race spawned...some Northern forest hardly yet cleared, — talks of Progressi. Progress to what, and from whence? Amid empires shrivelled into deserts, amid the wrecks... | |
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - English fiction - 1858 - 422 pages
...more contemptible ; — thus, he now directed the shafts of his fury against the fiat-nosed Frank, full of bustle and puffed up with self-conceit, —...morasses of some Northern Forest hardly yet cleared. No one with a spark of generosity in his nature can withhold his sympathy or admiration from Mr. Disraeli's... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1877 - 504 pages
...now strewn with the superb relics of their inimitable magnificence ? And yet some flat-nosed Frank, full of bustle and puffed up with self-conceit (a...which nations import for the prime ornament of their mud-bnilt capitals, amid arts forgotten, commerce annihilated, fragmentary literatures and populations... | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor - Great Britain - 1879 - 736 pages
...the way he speaks in his own person of the nations of Christendom. "And yet some flat-nosed Frank, full of bustle and puffed up with self-conceit (a...northern forest hardly yet cleared), talks of Progress !"—Ibid. 226-7. I must content myself with giving these passages in this place ; there are scores... | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor - Great Britain - 1879 - 756 pages
...Christendom. " And yet some flat-nosed Frank, full of Imstle and puffed up with self-conceit (a nice spawned perhaps in the morasses of some northern forest hardly yet cleared), talks of l'ro.,Tfss ! " — Ibid. '2'2ii-7. I must content myself with giving these passages in this place ;... | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor - 1880 - 354 pages
...the way he speaks in his own person of the nations of Christendom. " And yet some flat-nosed Frank, full of bustle and puffed up with self-conceit (a race spawned perhaps in morasses of some northern forest hardly yet cleared), talks of Progress \"—lbid. 226-7. I must content... | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor - Prime ministers - 1880 - 320 pages
...the way he speaks in his own person of the nations of Christendom. " And yet some flat-nosed Frank, full of bustle and puffed up with self-conceit (a race spawned perhaps in morasses of some northern forest hardly yet cleared), talks of Progress!" — Ibid. 226-7. I must content... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 506 pages
...now strewn with the superb relics of their inimitable magnificence? And yet some flat-nosed T^-ank, full of bustle and puffed up with self-conceit (a...which nations import for the prime ornament of their mud-brult capitals, amid arts forgotten, commerce annihilated, fragmentary litera tures and populations... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1900 - 512 pages
...yet some flat-nosed Frank, full of bustle aad puffed up with self-conceit (a race spawned perhaps iu the morasses of some Northern forest hardly yet cleared),...which nations import for the prime ornament of their mnd-built capitals, amid arts forgotten, commerce annihilated, fragmentary literatures and populations... | |
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