 | Thomas Doubleday - 1856 - 552 páginas
...observations, and when he finds the wind veers towards a certain quarter, trims to suit it. Such a person may be a powerful minister ; but he is no more ' a...man who gets up behind a carriage is ' a great whip ! ' Both are disciples of progress, to be sure. Both perhaps may get a good place. (Cheers and laughter.)... | |
 | William Nassau Molesworth - 1874 - 424 páginas
...takes his observations, and when he finds the wind in « certain quarter, trims his sails to suit it. Such a man may be a powerful minister, but he is no more a great statesman than a man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip.' This specimen is sufficient. In this strain he... | |
 | William Nassau Molesworth - 1874 - 428 páginas
...takes his observations, and when he finds the wind in acertain quarter, trims his sails to suit it. Such a man may be a powerful minister, but he is no more a great statesman than a man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip.' This specimen is sufficient. In this strain he... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1876 - 604 páginas
...position of a man who never originates an idea. .... Such a person may he a powerful minister, buthe is no more a great statesman than the man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip. Both arc disciples of progress. Both, perhaps, may get a good place. . . . Thro w your eyes over the... | |
 | William Robertson (of Rochdale.) - 1877 - 568 páginas
...takes his observations, and when he finds the wind in a certain quarter trims his sails to suit it. Such a man may be a powerful minister, but he is no more a great statesman than a man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip." Twelve nights were occupied in debating the second... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1879 - 460 páginas
...sovereigns were thwarted, Parliament dissolved, and a nation taken in ? ' 'I belong to a party which can triumph no more, for we have nothing left on our...man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip.' ' The opportune,' says Mr. Disraeli himself in his ' Lord George Bentinck,' ' in a popular assembly... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1879 - 350 páginas
...sovereigns were thwarted, Parliament dissolved, and a nation taken in?" "I belong to a party which can triumph no more, for we have nothing left on our...man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip." "The opportune," says Mr. Disraeli himself in his 'Lord George Bentinck,' "in a popular assembly has... | |
 | Thomas Power O'Connor - 1879 - 736 páginas
...Peel as "a man who never originates an idea—a watcher of the atmosphere." "Such a person," he added, "may be a powerful Minister, but he is no more a great...man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip." i It will have been observed that many of Mr. Disraeli's attacks on Sir Robert Peel are founded on... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1879 - 378 páginas
...trims to suit it." He might be a powerful Minister, but it was said with a bitter sneer that he was no more a great statesman than the man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip ; " both may, perhaps, get a good place," laughed his terrible assailant, " but how far the original... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1880 - 572 páginas
...sovereigns were thwarted, Parliament dissolved, and a nation taken in ?" " I belong to a party which can triumph no more, for we have nothing left on our...man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip." "The opportune," says Mr. Disraeli himself in his "Lord George Bentinck," " in a popular assembly has... | |
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I care not what may be the position of a man who never originates an idea — a watcher of the atmosphere, a man who, as he says, takes his observations, and when he finds the wind in a certain quarter, trims to suit it. 
