 | George Canning - Great Britain - 1835 - 650 pages
...right to be at war with them, gentlemen would do well to recollect that of madness there are several kinds. If theirs had been a harmless idiot lunacy,...its fooleries at home; with dressing up strumpets in oak leaves, and inventing nick names for the calendar, I should have been far from desiring to interrupt... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 528 pages
...right to be at war with them, gentlemen would do well to recollect that of madness there are several kinds. If theirs had been a harmless idiot lunacy,...been far from desiring to interrupt their innocent amusement; we might have looked on with hearty contempt, indeed, but with contempt not wholly unmixed... | |
 | George Canning - 1844 - 646 pages
...right to be at war with them, gentlemen would do well to recollect that of madness there are several kinds. If theirs had been a harmless idiot lunacy,...its fooleries at home; with dressing up strumpets in oak leaves, and inventing nick names for the calendar, I should have been far from desiring to interrupt... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - 376 pages
...declamation ; but Mr. Canning knew how to give point to the extravagance. " If," he •exclaimed, " it had been a harmless, idiot lunacy, which had contented...a contempt not wholly unmixed with commiseration." It is easy to understand how such allusions would act upon the sturdy Protestantism of an English House... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - 388 pages
...playing its tricks and practicing its fooleries at home ; with dressing up strumpets in oak leaves, and inventing nicknames for the calendar, I should...a contempt not wholly unmixed with commiseration." It is easy to understand how such allusions would act upon the sturdy Protestantism of an English House... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - 396 pages
...declamation ; but Mr. Canning knew how to give point to the extravagance. " If," he exclaimed, " it had been a harmless, idiot lunacy, which had contented itself with playing its tricks and practicing its fooleries at home ; with dressing up strumpets in oak leaves, and inventing nicknames... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...right to be at war with them, Gentlemen would do well to recollect that of madness there are several kinds. If theirs had been a harmless idiot lunacy,...practising its fooleries at home, — with dressing up shameless women in oak -leaves, and inventing nick-names for the calendar, — I should have been far... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...right to be at war with them, Gentlemen would do well to recollect that of madness there are several kinds. If theirs had been a harmless idiot lunacy,...practising its fooleries at home, — with dressing up shameless women in oak-leaves, and inventing nick-names for the calendar, — I should have been far... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 534 pages
...right to be at war with them, gentlemen would do well to recollect that of madness there are several kinds. If theirs had been a harmless idiot lunacy,...been far from desiring to interrupt their innocent amusement; we might have looked on with hearty contempt, indeed, but with contempt not wholly unmixed... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...right to be at war with them, Gentlemen would do well to recollect that of madness there are several kinds. If theirs had been a harmless idiot lunacy,...practising its fooleries at home, — with dressing up shameless women in oak-leaves, and inventing nick-names for the calendar, — I should have been far... | |
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If theirs had been a harmless idiot lunacy, which had contented itself with playing its tricks, and practising its fooleries at home ; with dressing up strumpets in oak-leaves, and inventing nicknames for the calendar, I should have been far from desiring... 
