 | 1766 - 754 páginas
...ferve; biit I would not be refbonfible for otnen [xxiii. J47- ]• — I have no local attach, menta : it is indifferent to me, whether a man was rocked in his cradle on this fide or that fide of the Tweed. — I fought for merit where-ever it was to be found. — It is my... | |
 | 1766 - 520 páginas
...influence, I ' niight have ftill continued to ferve; but I would not be refponflble for others. — I have no local attachments : it is indifferent to me, whether a man was rock'd in his cradle on this fide or that fide of the Tweed. — I fought for merit wherever ir was... | |
 | Henry Fuseli - 1767 - 178 páginas
...fcandal. — How could he, had it not been for his utter ignorance of Engliih I 3 cuftoms, " ferent to me, whether a man was rocked in " his cradle on this fide or that fide of the " Tweed. Detefted be national reflections ! " — They are unjuft, groundlefs,... | |
 | James Burgh - 1775 - 540 páginas
...Chatham fliews a nobler way of thinking j •who, in the debate on the Stamp- aft, fpoke as follows : ' 1 have no local attachments. It is indifferent to me, whether a man was rocked in. his cradle on this fide of the 'tweed, or on that. I fought for merit, wherever it was to be found. It is my boaft that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 700 páginas
...influence, I might have ftill continued to ferve ; hut I would not be refponfible for others. — I have no local attachments : it is indifferent to me, whether a man was rocked in his cradle on this fide or that fide the Tweed.— I fought for merit wherever it was to be found.— It is my boaft,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1786 - 376 páginas
...continued to ferve ; but I Would not be refponfible for others — I have no local at-* tachments; it is indifferent to me whether a man was rocked in his cradle pn this fide or that fide the Tweed. — I fought for merit wherever it was to be found. ^-It is my... | |
 | John Almon, William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1792
...fubmitted to influence, I might have ftill continued to ferve; but I would not be refponfibte for others. 1 have no local attachments ; it is indifferent to me, whether a man was rocked in his cradle on this fide or that fide of the Tweed. I fought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boait, that... | |
 | William Belsham - 1795 - 388 páginas
...to influence, I might ftill have continued to ferve—but I would not be refponfible for others. I have no local attachments. It is indifferent to me, whether a man was rocked in his cradle on this fide or that fide of the Tweed. I countenanced and protected merit wherever it was to be found. It... | |
 | John Almon - 1797 - 550 páginas
...to influence, I might have ftill continued to ferve ; but I would not be refponlible for others. 1 have no local attachments; it is indifferent to me, whether a man was rocked in his cradle on this jide or that fide of the Tweed. I fought °xxixP.' f°r me"t wherever it was to be found. It *~^J is... | |
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I sought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boast that I was the first minister who looked for it, and found it, in the mountains of the North. 
