| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1873 - 532 pages
...seen the aliens do their duty?" The Duke of Wellington is not a man of an excitable tempera20 ment. His mind is of a cast too martial to be easily moved;...inflexibility, I cannot help thinking that when he heard hia Roman Catholic countrymen (for we are his countrymen) designated by a phrase as offensive as the... | |
| Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 456 pages
...the Irish Municipal Bill, when Sheil caught up and commented on the phrase : ' Aliens ! good God ! was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords,..."Hold! I have seen the aliens do their duty?" "The battles, sieges, fortunes he has passed," should have come back upon him. . . . Whose were the arms... | |
| Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 484 pages
...the Irish Municipal Bill, when Sheil caught up and commented on the phrase : ' Aliens ! good God ! was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords, and did he not start up and exclaim, " Hold II have seen the aliens do their duty ? " " The battles, sieges, fortunes he has passed," should have... | |
| John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1875 - 584 pages
...Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords, — and did he not start up and exclaim, "Hold ! l have seen the aliens do their duty ! " The Duke of Wellington is not a man of an excitable lemperament. His mind is of a cast too martial to be easily moved ; but, notwithstanding his habitual... | |
| 1876 - 732 pages
...not entitled to the same privileges as Englishmen ; that they are "aliens." Aliens? Good heavens ! Was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords,..." Hold! I have seen the aliens do their duty!" The " battles, sieges, fortunes that he has passed," ought to have come back upon him. He ought to have... | |
| Recitations - 1876 - 734 pages
...not entitled to the same privileges as Englishmen; that they are " aliens." Aliens ? Go6d heavens ! "Was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords, and did he not start up and exclaim, " Hold ! 1 have seen the aliens do their dill}/!" The " battles, sieges, fortunes that he has passed," ought... | |
| Oliver Ernesto Branch - Readers - 1878 - 278 pages
...pronounces them aliens; aliens in race, aliens in country, aliens in religion ! Aliens ! good God ! was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords...inflexibility, I cannot help thinking that, when he heard his Koman Catholic countrymen designated IRISH ALIENS AND ENGLISH VICTORIES. 239 by a phrase as offensive... | |
| Abraham Hayward - Biography - 1878 - 482 pages
...the Irish Municipal Bill, when Sheil caught up and commented on the phrase : ' Aliens ! good God ! was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords,...exclaim, " Hold ! I have seen the aliens do their duty 1 " " The battles, sieges, fortunes he has passed," should have come back upon him. . . . Whose were... | |
| Joseph Wadsworth Keene - Elocution - 1879 - 256 pages
...are not entitled to the same privileges as Englishmen ; that they are " aliens." Aliens ? Good God ! Was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords,..."Hold ! I have seen the aliens do their duty ! " The " battles, sieges. fortunes that he has passed," ought to have come back upon him. He ought to have... | |
| George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1879 - 350 pages
...though the Duke would have uttered them differently. 2. Was Arthur Duke of Wellington in the house, and did he not start up and exclaim: "Hold! I have seen the aliens do their duty?" In quick time — He flew by like a flash o' lightning. In low pitch — He growled out, "Who's there?"... | |
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