 | George William Erskine Russell - English literature - 1898 - 398 pages
...task for applying the word "alien" to the Irish in a speech on municipal reform : "Aliens ! Good God ! was Arthur Duke of Wellington in the House of Lords,...exclaim : 'Hold ! I have seen the aliens do their duty'? ... I appeal to the gallant soldier before me, from whose opinions I differ, but who bears, I know,... | |
 | Harry Cassell Davis, John Cloyse Bridgman - Readers - 1899 - 390 pages
...Englishmen ; and pronounces them to be aliens in race, to be aliens in country, to be aliens in religion ! Aliens ! was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House...exclaim, " Hold ! I have seen the aliens do their duty ! " I cannot help thinking that, when he heard his Roman Catholic countrymen (for we are his countrymen)... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 450 pages
...aliens — to be aliens in race, to be aliens in country, to be aliens in religion. Aliens! good God! was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords, and did he not start up and exclaim : K Hold ! I have seen the aliens do their duty B ? The Duke of Wellington is not a man of an excitable... | |
 | Harry Pratt Judson, Ida C. Bender - Readers - 1901 - 266 pages
...Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords, and did he not start up and exclaim, " Hold ! I 5have seen the aliens do their duty"? The Duke of Wellington...help thinking that when he heard his Roman Catholic coun10 trymen — for we are his countrymen — designated by a phrase as offensive as the abundant... | |
 | Wilmot Brookings Mitchell - Elocution - 1901 - 476 pages
...express thought or emotion which is gentle, grand, gloomy, cautious, and deliberate. "Aliens! Good God! was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords,...and exclaim, 'Hold! I have seen the aliens do their duly!' " " Calm and unmoved as the marble walls around him stood Regulus, the Roman. He stretched his... | |
 | Ida Catherine Bender, Harry Pratt Judson - Readers - 1901 - 268 pages
...and religion, to be aliens, to be aliens in race, to be aliens in country, to be aliens in religion. Aliens ! was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House...Lords, and did he not start up and exclaim, " Hold! I 5 have seen the aliens do their duty" ? The Duke of Wellington is not a man of an excitable temperament.... | |
 | Charles Morris - Orators - 1902 - 714 pages
...aliens :— to be aliens in race, to be aliens in country, aliens in religion ! Aliens ! good God ! was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords, and did he not start up and exclaim : " HOLD ! I HAVK SEEN THE ALIENS DO THEIR DUTY? " The Duke of Wellington is not a man of an excitable temperament.... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1905 - 872 pages
...are not entitled to the same privileges as Englishmen ; that they are "aliens." Aliens? Good heavens! Was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the house of Lords, and did he not start up and exclaim, "Hold! 1 hace seen the aliens do their duty!" The " battles, sieges, fortunes that he has passed," ought to... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Authors, Irish - 1904 - 544 pages
...his little frame dilated, his hair streamed wildly, and his witch-like voice keened out, " Good God ! was Arthur Duke of Wellington in the House of Lords, and did he not start up and say ' Hold, I have seen the aliens do their duty '? " The little man rose in wrath and intensity; and... | |
 | Leisure - 1881 - 818 pages
...are aliens — 'aliens in race, aliens in country, and aliens in religion.' Aliens ! great heavens ! Was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords,...inflexibility, I cannot help thinking that when he heard his countrymen — for we are his countrymen — designated by a phrase as offensive as the abundant vocabulary... | |
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Aliens ! good God ! was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords, and did he not start up and exclaim, ' Hold ! I have seen the aliens do their duty ?' The Duke of Wellington is not a man of an excitable temperament. His mind is of a cast too... 
