 | 1859 - 650 pàgines
...existence; And, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to nave the country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most eorrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pàgines
...existence ; and, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to save the country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing witli the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 654 pàgines
...mutual interest and affection " was described by lord Cornwallis in a letter of the 8th of June : " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...am supported only by the reflection, that without a Union the British empire must be dissolved." t On the 29th of March, lord Cornwallis deprecated,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 pàgines
...mutual interest and affection " was described by lord Cornwallis in a letter of the £¡th of June : " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and l¡ate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work ; and am supported only by the reflection,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 946 pàgines
...called " the management of the country" out of their hands. On the 8th of June, lord Cornwallis wrote, "My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven." The system of "negotiating and jobbing" had to be worked by promising an Irish peerage, or a lift in... | |
 | William John Fitzpatrick - 1866 - 336 pàgines
...service in the hands of Lord Cornwallis. " My occupation", writes this nobleman on 8th June, 1799, " is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating...jobbing with the most corrupt people under Heaven. J despise myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work". And again : " How I long to kick those... | |
 | Martin Haverty - 1867 - 798 pàgines
...the 8th of June, 1799, he writes: " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negociating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven....and am supported only by the reflection that without a onion the British empire must be dissolved." The now published correspondence both of lord Castlereagh... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1859 - 740 pàgines
...of winning over the Irish Parliament by corruption. t ' My occupation,' ho wrote to General Ross, ' is now of the most unpleasant nature — ' negotiating...reflection that ' without an Union the British empire must ha dissolved.' During the summer and autumn of 17!J!) the Government and the Opposition made thuir... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1870 - 1038 pàgines
...called " the management of the country " out of their hands. On the 8th of June, lord Cornwallis wrote, "My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven." The system of "negotiating and jobbing" had to be worked by promising an Irish peerage, or a lift in... | |
 | 1871 - 756 pàgines
...most cursed of all situations. How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court !" " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature...and am supported only by the reflection that without a Union the llriii.-h empire must be dissolved." To attempt to give in our narrow space a detailed... | |
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My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature — negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection that without an union... 
