 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - Страниц: 644
...Smith gave the following illustration of the fruitlessness of the resistance of the Lords : — ' 1 do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of...progress of Reform reminds me very forcibly of the great sturm at Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - Страниц: 654
...Sydney Smith gave the following illustration of the fruitlessness of the resistance of the Lords : — ' I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt...Reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm at Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter 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), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - Страниц: 650
...Sydney Smith gave the fallowing illustration of the fruitlessuess of the resistance of the Lords : — ' I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt...Reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm at Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - Страниц: 388
...tells us, there are but two things certain in this world — death and taxes. As for the possibility of the House of Lords preventing ere long a reform...the lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds Bc very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the eondnct of the excellent Mrs. Partington... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - Страниц: 348
...this world — death and taxes. As for the possibility of the House of Lords preventing ere loiii^ a reform of Parliament, I hold it to be the most absurd...imagination. I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attrmiit of the lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1885 - Страниц: 530
...verified Sydney Smith's political sagacity. I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of Ihe Lords to stop the progress of Reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidnouth, and of the conduct of Ihe excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824... | |
 | 1874 - Страниц: 714
...Taunton on or about the llth of October, 1831, to the following effect : — • " I do not mean to bo disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of Reform reminds me тегу forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1852 - Страниц: 246
...tells us, there are but two things certain in this world — death and taxes. As for the possibility of the House of Lords preventing ere long a reform of Parliament, I hold it to be the most ahsurd notion that ever entered into human imagination. I do not mean to he disrespectful, but the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - Страниц: 570
...tells as there are but two things certain in this world, — death and taxes. As for the possibility of the House of Lords preventing, ere long, a reform of Parliament, I hold it to bo the most absurd notion that ever entered into human imagination. I do not mean to be disrespectful... | |
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Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town — the... 
