 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 518 страници
...might have answered equally was, that he could not reprehend without scolding, and in such Billingsgate language as should not come out of the mouth of any...it giving a lick with the rough side of his tongue. He seemed to lay nothing of his business to heart, nor care what he did or left undone." well for that... | |
 | 1852 - 354 страници
...spirit ; and his weakness was that he could not reprehend without scolding; and in such Billingsgate language, as should not come out of the mouth of any man. He called it giving a lick with the rougk tide of hit tongue. It was ordinary to hear him say, Go, you are ajilthy, lousy, nilty r aural;... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 страници
...spirit ; and his weakness was, that he could not reprehend without scolding, and in such Billingsgate language as should not come out of the mouth of any...ordinary to hear him say, ' Go, you are a filthy, lousy, nitty rascal I' with much more of like elegance. Scarce a day passed that he did not chide some one... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1864 - 358 страници
...spirit ; and his weakness was that he could not reprehend without scolding; and in such Billingsgate language, as should not come out of the mouth of any...tongue. It was ordinary to hear him say, Go, you are a fdthy, louty, nitty ratcal; with much more of like elegance. Scarce a day passed that he did not chide... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 436 страници
...added, " and his weakness was that he could not reprehend without scolding ; and in such Billingsgate language as should not come out of the mouth of any man. . . . Scarce a day past that he did not chide some one or other of the bar, when he sat in Chancery... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 432 страници
...added, " and his weakness was that he could not reprehend without scolding ; and in such Billingsgate language as should not come out of the mouth of any man. . . . Scarce a day past that he did not chide some one or other of the bar, when he sat in Chancery... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 страници
...the bottle. His weakness was, that he could not reprehend without scolding, and in such Billingsgate as should not come out of the mouth of any man. He...giving a lick with the rough side of his tongue." Before this alternately laughing and blackguarding demon Algernon Sidney, the last of the republicans,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 336 страници
...the bottle. His weakness was that he could not reprehend without scolding, and in such Billingsgate as should not come out of the mouth of any man. He...giving a lick with the rough side of his tongue." One of the most noted exhibitions of Jeffreys' brutality was the trial of Richard Baxter. As we shall... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - 1894 - 476 страници
...spirit ; and his weakness was that he could not reprehend without scolding ; and in such Billingsgate language as should not come out of the mouth of any man. He called il ' giving a lick with the rough side of his tongue.' It was ordinary to hear him say, ' Go ; you... | |
 | Henry Brodribb Irving - 1898 - 408 страници
...spirit, and his weakness was that he could not reprehend without scolding ; and in such Billingsgate language as should not come out of the mouth of any...side of his tongue.' It was ordinary to hear him say : ' Oh, you are a filthy lousy knitty rascal ! ' with much more of like elegance. Scarce a day passed... | |
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... forth his severities with a sort of majesty. He had extraordinary natural abilities, but little acquired, beyond what practice in affairs had supplied. He talked fluently, and with spirit ; and his weakness was, that he could not reprehend without... 
