 | Augustus Granville Stapleton - 1831 - 518 sivua
...it was impossible for me to look for that personal good-will and confidence in such communications, which are absolutely necessary, and which I trust...the letter which I received from His Majesty of the 13th of April, written I conclude by your advice as His Minister, must have confirmed the impression... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - 376 sivua
...calm and elevated to be moved by the passions of the lower world. " I am not in the habit," he says, " of deciding upon such matters hastily or in anger...proof of this is, that I never had a quarrel with a man in my life." A few months afterwards he fought a duel with Lord Winchelsea. probably strike the... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - 388 sivua
...by the passions of the lower world. "I am not in the habit," he says, "of deciding upon such mailers hastily or in anger ; and the proof of this is, that I never had a quarrel with a man in my life." A few months afterward he fought a duel with Lord Winchelsea, isterg ; but people... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1864 - 552 sivua
...Explanatory Letter to Mr. Canning (published by Mr. Stapleton, Life of Canning, vol. iii. p. 384), says : ' I am not in the habit of deciding upon such matters...proof of this is, that I never had a quarrel with any mau in mv life.' 1827. Ireland. The principal events of the fragment of the session which succeeded... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1871 - 800 sivua
...useless to him hereafter, if I had continued to endeavour to serve him in the post of Comma nder-in-Chief of his army, after I had received that letter. I am...the letter which I received from his Majesty of the 13th of April, written, I conclude, by your advice as his minister, must have confirmed the impression... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 202 sivua
...would not brush away a mosquito." At a late period in life the Duke of Wellington wrote to a friend : " I am not in the habit of deciding upon such matters...hastily or in anger ; and the proof of this is, that / never had a quarrel with any man in my life!" Considering the long and varied career, civil and military,... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 376 sivua
...would not brush away a mosquito." At a late period in life the Duke of Wellington wrote to a friend: " I am not in the habit of deciding upon such matters...hastily or in anger ; and the proof of this is, that / never had a quarrel with any man in my life ! " Considering the long and varied career, civil and... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 386 sivua
...would not brush away a mosquito." At a late period in life the Duke of Wellington wrote to a friend : " I am not in the habit of deciding upon such matters...hastily or in anger ; and the proof of this is, that / never had a quarrel with any man in my life ! " Considering the long and varied career, civil and... | |
 | William Mathews - 1877 - 462 sivua
...would not brush away a mosquito." At a late period in life the Duke of Wellington wrote to a friend : " I am not in the habit of deciding upon such matters...that I never had a quarrel with any man in my life!" Considering the long and varied career, civil and military, of " The Iron Duke," and that, too, in... | |
 | William Mathews - 1883 - 396 sivua
...would not brush away a mosquito." At a late period in life the Duke of Wellington wrote to a friend : " I am not in the habit of deciding upon such matters...that I never had a quarrel with any man in my life ! " Considering the long and varied career, civil and military, of " The Iron Duke," and that, too,... | |
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At a late period in life the Duke of Wellington wrote to a friend : " I am not in the habit of deciding upon such matters hastily or in anger ; and the proof of this is, that I never had a quarrel with any man in my life! 
