 | 1831 - 702 Seiten
...it," said Eliot, bitterly," no better than by the beast called by the ancients, Stellionatus ; a beast so blurred, so spotted, so full of foul lines, that they knew not what to make of it." He laid before them a mournful picture of the state of the kingdom, the "revenues destroyed, the fountain... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 588 Seiten
...picture of " the inward character of the duke's mind." The duke.s plurality of offices reminded him " of a chimerical beast called by the ancients Stellionatus...blurred , so spotted , so full of foul lines, that they know not what to make of it! In selling up himself he hath set upon the kingdom's revenues, the fountain... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 394 Seiten
...duke's mind. I can express it no better than by the beast called by the ancients stellionatug, a beast so blurred, so spotted, so full of foul lines, that they knew not what to make of it. So do we find in this man's practice/' &c. " Your lordships, (he concludes), have an idea of the man... | |
 | 1836 - 446 Seiten
...it," said Eliot bitterly, " no better than by the beast called by the ancients stellionatus ; a beast so blurred, so spotted, so full of foul lines, that they knew not what to make of it.'' He next presented to their lordships " the duke's high oppression" in all its strange extent, " not... | |
 | 1839 - 764 Seiten
...it,' said Eliot bitterly, 'no better than by the beast called by the ancients Stcllionatus; a creature so blurred, so spotted, so full of foul lines, that they knew not what to make of it.' He next presented to their lordships the duke's high oppression, in all its strange extent, not to... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 Seiten
...said Eliot bitterly, ' no better than by the beast called by the ancients Stellionatus ; a creature so blurred, so spotted, so full of foul lines, that they knew not what to make of it.' He next presented to their lordships the duke's high oppression, in all its strange extent, not to... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 686 Seiten
...the inward character of the duke's mind to the beast called by the ancient s stellionatus ;* a beast so blurred, so spotted, so full of foul lines, that they knew not what to make of it. "You have seen his power," continued the orator, " and some I fear have felt it. You have known his... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1845 - 482 Seiten
...the inward character of the duke's mind to the beast called by the ancients stellionatus;"* a beast so blurred, so spotted, so full of foul lines, that they knew not what to make of it. "You * The name of the animal alluded to is stellia ; from which seems to have been formed the legal... | |
 | John Forster - 1846 - 738 Seiten
...it," said Eliot, bitterly, " no better than by the beast called by the ancients stelItonatut ; a beast so blurred, so spotted, so full of foul lines that they knew not what to make of it." He next presented to their lordships " the duke's high oppression" in all its strange extent, " not... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1848 - 860 Seiten
...inward character of the duke'* mind to the beast called by the ancients stellionatta ,-' a beast ю blurred, so spotted, so full of foul lines, that they knew not what to make of it. " You have seen his power," continued the orator, " and some, I 1'fiir, hare felt it. Yon have known... | |
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He compared the inward character of the duke's mind to the beast called by the ancients stellionatus;"* a beast so blurred, so spotted, so full of foul lines, that they knew not what to make of it. 
