 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1814 - 542 pages
...disgrace, a. despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who had just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity." — The learned Solicitor-General's address was short, leaving it to the good sense and understanding... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - 1815 - 622 pages
...disgraoe, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude 'of his country, or the respect of posterity !" . • v After the opening remarks of the attorney-general, the other passages of the a-rticle which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 976 pages
...of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity !" The Solicitor-General, having asked Mr. Brougham, counsel for the defendants, whether he wished... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 864 pages
...ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of demireps, a man who had just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect or posterity." It might be true or it might be false ; but certainly there was then not a country in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1850 - 354 pages
...disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity ! These are hard truths ; but are they not truths ? And have we not suffered enough — are we not... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1850 - 354 pages
...disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity ! These are hard truths; but are they not truths? And have we not suffered enough — are we not now... | |
 | 1851 - 542 pages
...disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity! " These are hard truths ; but are they not truths ? And have we not suffered enough—are we not now... | |
 | Periodicals - 1851 - 724 pages
...disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gnmUcrs and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity Г Mr. Hunt thinks " the very sincere tone " of this libel might have furnished the Prince with a ground... | |
 | American essays - 1869 - 796 pages
...disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, a companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity." Hunt, with his brother, who was a joint proprietor of the Examiner, paid the penalty of such audacity... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1860 - 900 pages
...demireps, a man who has just closed half n century without one single claim on the gratitude of hi« country, or the respect of posterity." For this article,...imprisonment, in separate prisons, and each to pay a fine of 500/. Leigh Hunt was imprisoned in Horsemongerlane Gaol, one of the old-fashioned dreary buildings,... | |
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PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country... 
