 My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour, for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection, that without an Union...  The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century - Page 501by James Anthony Froude - 1874Full view - About this book
 | Charles Cornwallis Marquis Cornwallis - India - 1859 - 630 pages
...of perfect tranquillity. My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must, be dissolved. When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1859 - 584 pages
...again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating1 and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. "When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 578 pages
...And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1859 - 750 pages
...And again, June 8 :— ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1859 - 750 pages
...again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing witli the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most eorrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every...engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by tbe reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. When it is impossible to... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1861 - 654 pages
...of the 8th of June : " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise...without a Union the British empire must be dissolved." t On the 29th of March, lord Cornwallis deprecated, in a * " Parliamentary History," voL xxxiv. col.... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1861 - 622 pages
...unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and l¡ate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work...without a Union the British empire must be dissolved." t On the 29th of March, lord Cornwallis deprecated, in a * " Parliamentary History, " voL xxxiv. col.... | |
 | Martin Haverty - Ireland - 1867 - 798 pages
...June, 1799, he writes: " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negociating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise...am supported only by the reflection that without a onion the British empire must be dissolved." The now published correspondence both of lord Castlereagh... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1859 - 740 pages
...occupation,' ho wrote to General Ross, ' is now of the most unpleasant nature — ' negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under ' heaven. I despise...am supported only by the reflection that ' without an Union the British empire must ha dissolved.' During the summer and autumn of 17!J!) the Government... | |
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