 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 pages
...tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate, and may reproach some other houses, but willi tra@!y4 few er than eight members in the last Parliament What copious streams of pure blood must he not have... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1880 - 552 pages
...upholsterer for this house, to furnish it not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate, and may reproach some other houses, but...not have transfused into the veins of the present ! But what is even more striking than the real services of this new-imported patriot, is his modesty.... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1884 - 486 pages
...a wholesale upholsterer for this assembly. He made no fewer than eight members (reckoning himself) in the last Parliament. What copious streams of pure blood must he not have infused into the veins of the present ! " This assertion was, nevertheless, altogether exaggerated,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1887 - 590 pages
...upholsterer for this House, to furnish it, not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate, and may reproach, some other houses,...not have transfused into the veins of the present ! But what is even more striking than the real services of this new-imported patriot, is his modesty.... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 462 pages
...upholsterer for this House ; to furnish it, not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate and may reproach some other Houses, but...not have transfused into the veins of the present ! But what is even more striking than the real services of this new - imported patriot is his modesty.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 588 pages
...upholsterer for this House, — to furnish it, not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate, and may reproach, some other houses,...What copious streams of pure blood must he not have trail !>' fused into the veins of the present ! But what is even more striking than the real services... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 pages
...upholsterer for " this house, to furnish it, not with the faded tapestry " figures of antiquated merit such as decorate and " may reproach some other houses,...not have transfused into the veins of the "present!" Then he takes in hand Atkinson, Benfield's attorney, and recites the distinctions which were showered... | |
 | Lajpat Rai (Lala) - 1917 - 408 pages
...upholsterer for this House, to furnish it, not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate, and may reproach, some other Houses,...made, reckoning himself, no fewer than eight members of the last Parliament. What copious streams of pure blood must he not have transfused into the veins... | |
 | N. S. Ramaswami - 1984 - 628 pages
...upholsterer for this house, to furnish it, not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit such as decorate, and may reproach, some other houses,...not have transfused into the veins of the present." But Mr Benfield was in India. So Mr Richard Atkinson was called in. According to Burke, it was Atkinson... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - 2000 - 466 pages
...upholsterer for this House, to furnish it, not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate, and may reproach, some other Houses,...solid, living patterns of true modern virtue. Paul Benfiold made, reckoning himself, no fewer than eight members of the last Parliament. What copious... | |
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... his charitable toils for the relief of India, did not forget the poor rotten constitution of his native country. For her, he did not disdain to stoop to the trade of a wholesale upholsterer for this house, to furnish it not with the faded tapestry... 
