 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 744 pages
...and relative to this he had to appear before the House of Commons, and he then wrote to his wife, " I shall not long to have anything to do with the House...wrong-headed people on all sides gathered together." In April, 1769, he heard that a linendraper of the name of Moore, in London, was about to rob him of... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - Inventors - 1858 - 656 pages
...this confounded Committee of Parlia'' ment," he says, " I think I shall not long to have any" thing to do with the House of Commons again : — I never...wrong-headed people on all sides gathered " together. As Mac says, I believe the Deeiril has possession " of them ! " J On his journey from London on that... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - Inventors - 1859 - 440 pages
...glimpse ; when " close confined attending this confounded Committee of Parliament," he says, " I think I shall not long to have anything to do with the House...wrong-headed people on all sides gathered together. As Mac says, I believe the Deevil has possession of them."* On his journey from London on that occasion,... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - Inventors - 1859 - 652 pages
...this confounded Committee of Parlia" ment," he says, " I think I shall not long to have any" thing to do with the House of Commons again : — I never...wrong-headed people on all sides gathered " together. As Mac says, I believe the Deevil has possession "of them!'" On his journey from London on that occasion,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - History - 1865 - 560 pages
...the proceedings before " the confounded committee of Parliament," as he called it ; adding, " I think I shall not long to have anything to do with the House...people on all sides gathered together." The fact, however, that they had decided against him had probably some share in leading him to form this opinion... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1865 - 556 pages
...the proceedings before " the confounded committee of Parliament," as he called it; adding, " I think I shall not long to have anything to do with the House...wrong-headed people on all sides gathered together." The feet, however, that they had decided against him had probably some share in leading him to form this... | |
 | Book - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1868 - 284 pages
...says, — "I am close confined by having to attend this confounded Committee," and he adds, " I think I shall not long to have anything to do with the House...wrong-headed people — on all sides — gathered together. As Mac says, ' I believe the Deevil has possession of them.' " Mr. Alderman has also adverted to the... | |
 | Charles Hindley - 1869 - 216 pages
...— " I am close confined by having to attend this confounded committee ;" and he adds, "I think 1 shall not long to have anything to do with the House...wrong-headed people — on all sides — gathered together. As Mac says, ' I believe the Deevil has possession of them.' " Good taste forbids that, at a municipal... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Civil engineers - 1874 - 460 pages
...before " the confounded committee of Parliament," as he called it ; adding, " I think I shall not wish to have anything to do with the House of Commons again....people on all sides gathered together." The fact, however, that they had decided against him had probably some share in leading him to form this opinion... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Biography - 1881 - 230 pages
...a Committee of the House of Commons to defend his plan. " I think," he wrote to Mrs. Watt, Aprils, 1767, "I shall not long to have anything to do with...in producing this opinion of their wrongheadedness. tedious, for the mechanics were unused to the work. Watt was occasionally compelled to be absent on... | |
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I think I shall not long to have anything to do with the House of Commons again : I never saw so many wrong-headed people on all sides gathered together. 
