 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Страница 1491886Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Francis Hackett - 1922 - 428 страници
...the wish of my life to avoid this dirty business, and I am now involved in it beyond all bearing." "I despise and hate myself every hour, for engaging...am supported only by the reflection, that without an Union the British empire must be dissplved." The blufF, hearty, honest Englishman is liable to such... | |
 | Ramsay Muir - 1922 - 846 страници
...were spent in the purchase of pocket boroughs ; peerages and places were scattered with profusion. ' I despise and hate myself every hour, for engaging in such dirty work,' Cornwallis wrote, ' and am supported only by the reflection that without a Union the British Empire... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1924 - 1276 страници
...whom he had to conciliate. — " I despise and hate myself every hour," so Cornwallis wrote to Ross, " for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union, the British Empire must be dissolved."1 1 "Cornwallis Corresp.," iii, 101, 102, 226; "Castlereagh... | |
 | 1881 - 1092 страници
...Lord Cornwallis, the then Lord-Lieutenant, wrote to his friend General Ross on the 8th of une 1799 : 'I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work.' The confusion caused by the civil war of 1798 was aggravated by permitting the cruelties of the Orangemen,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1872 - 378 страници
...most repugnant to my feelings. How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court 1 ' ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British empire must be dissolved.' l Castlereagh, however, who was the more immediate... | |
 | John Ranelagh - 1994 - 340 страници
...Lord Cornwallis complained to a friend 'My occupation is of the most unpleasant nature, bargaining and jobbing with the most corrupt people under Heaven. I despise and hate myself for ever engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection that without a Union... | |
 | 1979 - 334 страници
...Ireland. Lord Cornwallis had written to Sir Charles Ross that he managed to bring about the Union by "negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people...am supported only by the reflection that without a Union the British Empire must be dissolved." It is common to conclude from such evidence that the avarice... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1886 - 590 страници
...1 long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court' My occupation is to negociate and job with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise...am supported only by the reflection, that without a Union the British' Empire must be dissolved.' As in the history of the Roman Republic, so in the history... | |
 | 1881 - 1098 страници
...Lord Cornwallis, the then Lord-Lieutenant, wrote to his friend General Ross on the 8th of June 1799 : 'I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work.' The confusion caused by the civil war of 1798 was aggravated by permitting the cruelties of the Orangemen,... | |
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