... not. For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well; so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them. The Foreign Quarterly Review - Page 2011844Full view - About this book
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...home of lords think Uiat I knew something of the matter; and also, to make them helieve that they kucw something of it themselves, which they do not. For my own part, I could jnst as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them, as astronomy, and they would have understood... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 518 pages
...made the whole very clear to them, " when, God knows," says he, " I had not even attempted it. I could as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as...astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well. Lord Macclesfield," he adds, " who had the greatest share in forming the hill, and is one of the greatest... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 408 pages
...themselves, whieh they do not. For my own part, I eould just as soon have talked Celtie or Selavoniau to them, as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well : so I resolved to i!o better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them. I gave them, therefore,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 522 pages
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| Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1827 - 390 pages
...make the House of Lords think that I knew something of the matter ; and also, to make them believe that they knew something of it themselves, which they...me full as well : so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them. I gave them therefore, only an historical... | |
| 1832 - 616 pages
...matter very clear to them ; " when, God knows, continued he, " I had not even attempted it. I could as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them,...astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well. Lord Macclesfield, who is one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterwards,... | |
| 1834 - 614 pages
...himself upon them as fully master of all its details, while, says he, " I could just as soon haver talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as astronomy, and they would have understood me just as well." The only literary production ascribed to the Lord Chancellor Macclesfield is a tract,... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 266 pages
...matter very clear to them ; " when, God knows," continued he, " I had not even attempted it. I could as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them,...; and they would have understood me full as well. Lord Macclesfield, who is one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterwards,... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 pages
...alluding to the success of his oratory on this occasion, — " God knows, I had not even attempted it. I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian...and they would have understood me full as well."* Lord Chesterfield's eloquence was unquestionably of a high order. Horace Walpole, — who had listened... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 pages
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