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" ... not. For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them, as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well : so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them. "
Life of Lord Chesterfield: An Account of the Ancestry, Personal Character ... - Seite 306
von William Henry Craig - 1907 - 378 Seiten
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Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of ...

Philip Dormer Stanhope - 1810 - 456 Seiten
...home of lords think Uiat I knew something of the matter; and also, to make them helieve that they kucw something of it themselves, which they do not. For my own part, I could jnst as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them, as astronomy, and they would have understood...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Band 28

Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 518 Seiten
...made the whole very clear to them, " when, God knows," says he, " I had not even attempted it. I could as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well. Lord Macclesfield," he adds, " who had the greatest share in forming the hill, and is...
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Letters written by the...earl of Chesterfield to his son; with some ..., Band 2

Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 408 Seiten
...am an utter stranger. However, it was absolutely neeessary to make the house of lords think that 1 knew something of the matter ; and also, to make them...believe that they knew something of it themselves, whieh they do not. For my own part, I eould just as soon have talked Celtie or Selavoniau to them,...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Band 28

Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 522 Seiten
...made the whole very clear to them, " when, God knows," says he, " I had not even attempted it. I could as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well. Lord Macclesfield," he adds, " who had the greatest share in forming the bill, and is...
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Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, Band 2

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1827 - 390 Seiten
...astronomical calculations, to both which I am an utter stranger. However, it was absolutely necessary to make the House of Lords think that I knew something...them, as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well : so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing...
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The Georgian Era: The royal family. The pretenders and their adherents ...

1832 - 616 Seiten
...matter very clear to them ; " when, God knows, continued he, " I had not even attempted it. I could as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them, as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well. Lord Macclesfield, who is one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe,...
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The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Band 12

1834 - 614 Seiten
...himself upon them as fully master of all its details, while, says he, " I could just as soon haver talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as astronomy, and they would have understood me just as well." The only literary production ascribed to the Lord Chancellor Macclesfield is a tract, which is printed...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Band 8

Englishmen - 1836 - 266 Seiten
...matter very clear to them ; " when, God knows," continued he, " I had not even attempted it. I could as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them, as astronomy ; and they would have understood me full as well. Lord Macclesfield, who is one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe,...
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Memoirs of the court of England from ... 1688 to the death of George ..., Band 2

John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 Seiten
...alluding to the success of his oratory on this occasion, — " God knows, I had not even attempted it. I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian...them, as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well."* Lord Chesterfield's eloquence was unquestionably of a high order. Horace Walpole, —...
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The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Band 32

John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 Seiten
...astronomical calculations, to both which I am an utter stranger. However, it was absolutely necessary to make the House of Lords think that I knew something...them as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well, so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing...
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