 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1828 - 820 pages
...gratification in order to be appointed to « station, to the duties of which I was unaccustomed, in which I was not wished, and for which I was not qualified...be obvious to your lordships, that not being in the habits of Addressing your lordships, I should have been found, besides other disqualifications, incapable... | |
 | Augustus Granville Stapleton - 1831 - 516 pages
...such gratification in order to be appointed to a station to the duties of which I was unaccustomed, in which I was not wished, and for which I was not qualified...be obvious to Your Lordships that, not being in the habits of addressing Your Lordships, I should have been found, besides other disqualifications, incapable... | |
 | Augustus Granville Stapleton - 1831 - 518 pages
...such gratification in order to be appointed to a station to the duties of which I was unaccustomed, in which I was not wished, and for which I was not qualified...be obvious to Your Lordships that, not being in the habits of addressing Your Lordships, I should have been found, besides other disqualifications, incapable... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1854 - 824 pages
...gratification, in order to be appointed to a station, to the duties of which I was unaccustomed, in which I was not wished, and for which I was not qualified...ought to be defended in this House by the person thus honored by His Majesty's confidence. My Lords, I should have been worse than mad if I had thought of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1872 - 620 pages
...old comrades) ' in order to be appointed to a station, to the duties of which I was unaccustomed, in which I was not wished, and for which I was not qualified ? ' — ' He detested politics,' says the Knight of Kerry, quoting the Duke's own words : ' they did... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1872 - 616 pages
...old comrades) « in order to be appointed to a station, to the duties of which I was unaccustomed, in which I was not wished, and for which I was not qualified ? ' — ' He detested politics,' Bays the Knight of Kerry, quoting the Duke's own words : ' they did... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1899 - 492 pages
...think of giving up the command of the army for 'a station to the duties of which I was unaccustomed, in which I was not wished, and for which I was not qualified ' (Speeches, 2 May 1827). Canning died on 8 Aug., and Lord Goderich was made head of the government,... | |
 | Kosmo Wilkinson - 1905 - 364 pages
...congenial duties of commander-in-chief for appointment to a station to whose duties I was unaccustomed, in which I was not wished, and for which I was not qualified ? My Lords, I should have been worse than mad if I had thought of such a thing." In these words Lyndhurst's... | |
 | Marquess Richard Wellesley Wellesley - 1914 - 468 pages
...dreamt of giving up the command of the army for "a station to the duties of which I was unaccustomed, in which I was not wished, and for which I was not qualified." Yet 1 Add. MSS. 37297 f. 268. it must be remembered that within two years Wellington with no reluctance... | |
 | Rob Humphreys - 2003 - 692 pages
...reluctance that he became prime minister in 1828, "a station, to the duties of which I am unaccustomed, in which I was not wished, and for which I was not qualified ... I should have been mad if I had thought of such a thing". Despite his own misgivings, his government... | |
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Does any man believe that I would give up such gratification, in order to be appointed to a station, to the duties of which I was unaccustomed, in which I was not wished, and for which I was not qualified ? as it must be obvious to your Lordships that,... 