 | Early English newspapers - 1877 - 936 pages
...exchanged, and then Wilkes acknowledged himself to be the writer ; after which " his lordship " " desired that we might now be good friends, and retire to the...bottle of claret together, which we did with great humour and much laughter." The North Briton skilfully galled the most sensitive place in public opinion... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 pages
...everywhere that I was the noblest fellow God had ever made. He then desired that we might now be gooft friends, and retire to the Inn to drink a bottle of...together, which we did with great good humour and much luugh. Lord Talbot afterwards went to Windsor, Berkeley and Harris to Winchester, and I continue here... | |
 | William Douglas - Dueling - 1887 - 316 pages
...courage, and said he would declare everywhere that I was the noblest fellow God ever made. He then desired that we might now be good friends, and retire to the...bottle of claret together, which we did with great good-humour and much laughter. " His Lordship afterwards went to Windsor, Colonel Berkeley and my adjutant... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - Great Britain - 1888 - 372 pages
...said he would declare everywhere that I icas the noblest fellow God had ever made. He then desired that we might now be good friends, and retire to the...together, which we did with great good humour and much laughter.' This dramatic account is given in a letter to Lord Temple. Wilkes had ever a rather sentimental... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Adventure and adventurers - 1905 - 426 pages
...courage, and said he would declare everywhere that I am the noblest fellow God ever made. He then desired that we might now be good friends, and retire to the...together, which we did with great good humour and much laughing. " His Lordship afterwards went to Windsor, Colonel Berkeley and my adjutant to Winchester,... | |
 | Sir William Purdie Treloar (bart.) - London (England) - 1917 - 370 pages
...and said he would declare everywhere that I was the noblest fellow God had ever made. He then desired that we might now be good friends, and retire to the...together ; which we did with great good humour, and much laughter. Lord Talbot afterwards went to Windsor ; Berkeley and Harris to Winchester ; and I continue... | |
 | Military art and science - 1881 - 488 pages
...would declare everywhere that I am the noblest fellow God ever made. He then desired that we might no\v be good friends, and retire to the inn to drink a...together, which we did with great good humour and much laughter. " His Lordship afterwards went to Windsor, Colonel Berkeley and my Adjutant to Winchester,... | |
 | Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard - Firearms - 1926 - 462 pages
...said that he would declare everywhere that I was the noblest fellow God ever made. He then desired that we might now be good friends, and retire to the...together, which we did with great good humour and much laughter." 1 The period from 1760 to 1775 shows a marked development of the horse pistol into the true... | |
 | Jürgen Kocka - History - 1995 - 232 pages
...said he would declare every where that I was the noblest fellow God had ever made. He then desired that we might now be good friends, and retire to the...together, which we did with great good humour and much laugh.«47 Für Wilkes war die Affäre eine Gelegenheit, seine persönliche Integrität als »private... | |
 | Josep Maria Fradera, Jesús Millán y García-Varela - History - 2000 - 404 pages
...Pistáis, p. 24. [379] every where that I was the noblest fellow God had ever made. He then desired that we might now be good friends, and retire to the...together, which we did with great good humour and much laugh.»47 Para Wilkes, este asunto supuso una oportunidad de defender su integridad personal de «prívate... | |
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His lordship paid me the highest encomiums on my courage, and said he would declare everywhere that I was the noblest fellow God had ever made. He then desired that we might now be good friends, and retire to the inn to drink a bottle of claret together;... 
