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" My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union... "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Seite 149
1886
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The Quarterly Review, Band 105

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 Seiten
...existence ; and, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to save the country.' And again, June 8 :— ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands...
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Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis, Band 3

Charles Cornwallis Marquis Cornwallis - 1859 - 640 Seiten
...ferocity of the Loyalists will not for a long time permit the restoration of perfect tranquillity. My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands...
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Quarterly Review, Band 105

1859 - 578 Seiten
...existence ; and, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to save the country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands...
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The Quarterly Review, Band 105

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 Seiten
...country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating1 and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven....and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. "When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands...
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The London Quarterly Review, Bände 105-106

1859 - 650 Seiten
...existence; And, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to nave the country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most eorrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work,...
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The Quarterly Review, Band 105

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 Seiten
...existence ; and, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to save the country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing witli the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such...
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The popular history of England, Band 7

Charles Knight - 1861 - 654 Seiten
...mutual interest and affection " was described by lord Cornwallis in a letter of the 8th of June : " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...am supported only by the reflection, that without a Union the British empire must be dissolved." t On the 29th of March, lord Cornwallis deprecated, in...
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The popular history of England, Band 7

Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 Seiten
...mutual interest and affection " was described by lord Cornwallis in a letter of the £¡th of June : " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and l¡ate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work ; and am supported only by the reflection,...
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Charles Knight's school history of England, abridged from the ..., Band 1

Charles Knight - 1865 - 946 Seiten
...called " the management of the country" out of their hands. On the 8th of June, lord Cornwallis wrote, "My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven." The system of "negotiating and jobbing" had to be worked by promising an Irish peerage, or a lift in...
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'The sham squire' and the informers of 1798; with a view of their ...

William John Fitzpatrick - 1866 - 336 Seiten
...service in the hands of Lord Cornwallis. " My occupation", writes this nobleman on 8th June, 1799, " is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating...jobbing with the most corrupt people under Heaven. J despise myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work". And again : " How I long to kick those...
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