... all courts, in all ages, JOBS, were still alive ; for whose sake alone it is that any trace of ancient grandeur is suffered to remain. These palaces are a true emblem of some governments ; the inhabitants are decayed, but the governors and magistrates... The Black Book: Or, Corruption Unmasked! - Page 114by John Wade - 1820Full view - About this book
| John Wade - Civil service ethics - 2004 - 718 pages
...comfortless chambers. When this tumult subsides, a dead and still more frightful silence would reign in the desert, if, every now and then, the tacking...announce that those constant attendants on all courts, ia all ages, JOBS, were still alive; for whose sake alone it is that any trace of ancient grandeur... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 pages
...comfortless chambers. When this tumult subsides, a dead and still more frightful silence would reign in this desert, if every now and then the tacking of hammers did not announce that those constant attendants upon all courts in all ages, jobs, were still alive, — for whose sake alone it is that any trace... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 pages
...comfortless chambers. When this tumult subsides, a dead and still more frightful silence would reign in this desert, if every now and then the tacking of hammers did not announce that those constant attendants upon all courts in all ages, jobs, were still alive, — for whose sake alone it is that any trace... | |
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