 ... the necessary ablutions. Nor did he change his linen more frequently than he washed himself. Complaining one day to Dudley North that he was a martyr to the rheumatism, and had ineffectually tried every remedy for its relief, " Pray, my lord," said...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 681836Full view - About this book
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 472 pages
...they stripped him as they would have done a corpse, and performed on his body the necessary ablutions. Nor did he change his linen more frequently than he...lord," said he, " did you ever try a clean shirt?" Drunkenness was in him an hereditary vice, transmitted down, probably, by his ancestors from the Plantagenet... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 472 pages
...they stripped him as they would have done a corpse, and performed on his body the necessary ablutions. Nor did he change his linen more frequently than he...my lord," said he, " did you ever try a clean shirt ?" Drunkenness was in him an hereditary vice, transmitted down, probably, by his ancestors from the... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 466 pages
...they stripped him as they would have done a corpse, and performed on his body the necessary ablutions. Nor did he change his linen more frequently than he...my lord," said he, " did you ever try a clean shirt ?" Drunkenness was in him an hereditary vice, transmitted down, probably, by his ancestors from the... | |
 | 1836 - 928 pages
...him as they would a corpse, and performed on his body the necessary ablutions. Nor did he change hia linen more frequently than he washed himself. Complaining...shirt?'" His extraordinary strength of constitution enabled him to bear this ruinous process for a long succession of years. His father, the Duke of Norfolk,... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 590 pages
...they stripped him as they would have done a corpse, and performed on his body the necessary ablutions. Nor did he change his linen more frequently than he...relief, "Pray, my lord," said he, "did you ever try a dean shirt?" Drunkenness was in him an hereditary vice, transmitted down, probably, by his ancestors... | |
 | 1836 - 456 pages
...they stripped him as they would have done a corpse, and performed on his body the necessary ablutions. Nor did he change his linen more frequently than he...Complaining, one day, to Dudley North that he was u martyr to the rheumatism, and had ineffectually tried every remedy for its relief, " Pray, my lord,"... | |
 | William Carpenter - Nobility - 1837 - 894 pages
...stripped him, as they would have done a corpse, and performed on his body the necessary ablutions. Complaining one day, to Dudley North, that he was...Lord," said he, "did you ever try a clean shirt?" His Grace was a hearty Whig, and Fox could not name a more strenuous supporter. On the formation of Lord... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1845 - 444 pages
...would have done a corpse, and performed on his body the necessary ablutions. Nor did he change IS 19 his linen more frequently than he washed himself....my lord," said he, " did you ever try a clean shirt ?" Drunkenness was in him an hereditary sice, transmitted down, probably, by his siu-estors from the... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...have done a corpse, and performed on his body the necessary ablutions. Nor did he change 13 19 bis linen more frequently than he washed himself. Complaining...my lord," said he, " did you ever try a clean shirt ?" Drunkenness was in him an hereditary vice, transmitted down, probably, by his ancestors from the... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1850 - 216 pages
...they stripped him as they would have done a corpse, and performed on his body the necessary ablutions. Nor did he change his linen more frequently than he...one day, to Dudley North, that he was a martyr to rheumatism, and had ineffectually tried every remedy for its relief, "Pray, my Lord," said he, "did... | |
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