 | Reginald Lucas - 1913 - 404 Seiten
...attack on Germain. As he passed out of the House North 1 Lord Auckland's Journal, i. 9. said to him, ' Charles, I am glad you did not fall on me to-day, for you was in full feather.' It is a known and admired custom of English politics that opponents can fight... | |
 | Reginald Lucas - 1913 - 404 Seiten
...on Germain. As he passed out of the House North 1 Lord Auckland's Journal, i. 0. 201 said to him, ' Charles, I am glad you did not fall on me to-day, for you was in full feather.' It is a known and admired custom of English politics that opponents can fight... | |
 | Philip Guedalla - 1926 - 366 Seiten
...fun at angry gentlemen on the opposite benches; calling to Fox after a savage attack on ministers, "Charles, I am glad you did not fall on me to-day, for you were in full feather." His Pittite training had made him more sensitive to national than to party interests; and perhaps his... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1928 - 448 Seiten
...Germain may have derived from the compliment evaporated as he later overheard his chief remarking to Fox, "Charles, I am glad you did not fall on me to-day, for you was in full feather." At the end of the month Charles wrote to Ossory that he could not help believing... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1925 - 784 Seiten
...fun at angry gentlemen on the opposite benches ; calling to Fox after a savage attack on ministers, ' Charles, I am glad you did not fall on me to-day, for you was in full feather.' His Pittite training had made him more sensitive to national than to party interests... | |
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He said the man in the world who he chose should abuse him had done so. General Conway said the next day he was exactly of a contrary opinion. Lord North handsomely defended Lord George, and said he was glad Fox had abandoned him, an old hulk, to attack... 
