 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1869 - 246 páginas
...State kept us long waiting, and certainly, for the last half or three-quarters of an hour, I don't know that I ever had a conversation that interested me...certainly a more sudden and complete metamorphosis I never saw. ( Walmer, Oct. 1st, 1834.) THE MILITIA. The Militia is a force by which the Government is enabled... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1884 - 450 páginas
...State kept us long waiting, and certainly, for the last half or threequarters of an hour, I don't know that I ever had a conversation that interested me...certainly a more sudden and complete metamorphosis I never saw. Polignac and his Ministry. Walmer, October 2nd, 1834.— D. Mole told me years before Polignac's... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1884 - 626 páginas
...State kept us long waiting, and certainly, for the last half or three-quarters of an hour, I don't know that I ever had a conversation that interested me more. Now, if the Secretary of State hod been punctual, and admitted Lord Nelson in the first quarter of an hour, I should have had the... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1885 - 492 páginas
...State kept us long waiting, and certainly, for the last half or threequarters of an hour, I don't know that I ever had a conversation that interested me...certainly a more sudden and complete metamorphosis I never saw. Polignac and his Ministry. Walmer, October 2nd, 1834.—D. Mole told me years before Polignac's... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 540 páginas
...State kept us long waiting, aud certainly, for the last half or three quarters of an hour, I don't know that I ever had a conversation that interested me...certainly a more sudden and complete metamorphosis I never saw." 1 This is not the only record that remains to us of those interesting interviews with Cabinet... | |
 | 1902 - 1212 páginas
...State kept us long waiting, and certainly for the first half or three-quarters of an hour I don't know that I ever had a conversation that interested me more. Now, if the Secretary or State had been punctual, and admitted Lord Nelson in the first quarter of an hour, I should have... | |
 | Esther Meynell - 1913 - 362 páginas
...State kept us long waiting, and certainly, for the last half or three-quarters of an hour, I don't know that I ever had a conversation that interested me...satisfied that he was really a very superior man." Wellington was peculiarly unfitted by temperament to understand the volatile, passionate, and childish... | |
 | Charles Anthony Shriner - 1918 - 712 páginas
...State kept us long waiting and certainly, for the last half or three-quarters of an hour, I do not know that I ever had a conversation that interested me...I saw enough to be satisfied that he was really a Nelson very superior man; but certainly a more sudden or complete metamorphosis I never saw. — JOHN... | |
 | 1918 - 708 páginas
...long waiting and certainly, for the last half or three-quarters of an hour, I do not know that I eve* had a conversation that interested me more. Now, if...I saw enough to be satisfied that he was really a OF THE GREAT Oen»ral Nel*cm very superior man ; but certainly a more sudden or complete metamorphosis... | |
 | Hamish Macdonald - 1995 - 60 páginas
...kept us long waiting and, certainly, for the first half or three-quarters of an hour, I don't know that I ever had a conversation that interested me...satisfied that he was really a very superior man. Key words Charlatan A chattering pretender. from Tom Racock. Horatio Nelson, Pimlico (1987). p. 308... | |
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Now, if the Secretary of State had been punctual, and admitted Lord Nelson in the first quarter of an hour, I should have had the same impression of a light and trivial character that other people have had, but luckily I saw enough to be satisfied that... 
