| Edmund Burke - History - 1849 - 1012 pages
...Parliament, I talked of going at a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine...down to ten miles an hour ; but it must be done, and 1 did my best. I had to place myself in the most unpleasant of all positions — the witness-box of... | |
| Meteorology - 1844 - 950 pages
...Parliament, I talked of going at a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine...miles an hour, but it must be done, and I did my best. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions — the witness box of a parliamentary... | |
| English literature - 1844 - 742 pages
...1 talked of going at a greater rate than ten wiles an hour, 1 should put a cross upon the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine...down to ten miles an hour, but it must be done, and 1 did my best. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions— the witness-box of... | |
| 1848 - 640 pages
...a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I should pin a cross on the concern. It was not an easy lask for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour, but it must be done, and I did my best. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions — the witness-box of a parliamentary... | |
| Literature - 1848 - 634 pages
...parliament, I talked of going at a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I should put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour, but it must he done, and I did my best. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions — the... | |
| 1845 - 558 pages
...parliament, I talked of gojng at a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine...an hour ; but it must be done, and I did my best. I had to place myself in the most unpleasant of all positions — the witness-box of a parliamentary... | |
| American periodicals - 1845 - 636 pages
...parliament, I talked of going at a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine...an hour ; but it must be done, and I did my best. I had to phicc myself in that most unpleasant of all positions — the witness box of a parliamentary... | |
| 1845 - 854 pages
...parliament, I talked of going at a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine...an hour ; but it must be done, and I did my best. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions — the witness-box of a parliamentary... | |
| Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 372 pages
...Parliament, I talked of going at a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine...miles an hour, but it must be done, and I did my best. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions — the witness-box of a Parliamentary... | |
| Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 376 pages
...Parliament, I talked of going at a greater rate than ten miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine...miles an hour, but it must be done, and I did my best. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions — the witness-box of a Parliamentary... | |
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