| 1840 - 698 pages
...was over the house,' who was too powerful for Hezekiah to depose from the office of chief minister. He was one of those men who are always to be found among the rich aristocracy in a selfish, sceptical, unpatriotic age, who say, ' The country is lost,... | |
| Thomas Pitt Taswell- Langmead - 1875 - 876 pages
...the Peter Wentworth who suffered for his boldness of speech under Elizabeth, and had himself already given offence, in the last Parliament, by the freedom of his language. He is to be distinguished from Sir Thomas Wentworth, member for Yorkshire, who was returned to Parliament... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1885 - 460 pages
...He was, however, followed by Wentworth, the Puritan lawyer, who sat for the city of Oxford, and who had given offence in the last Parliament by the freedom...occasion his speech was in strong contrast to the caim argument of Sandys. The Spaniards, he said, had lost the Low Countries by attempting to lay impositions.... | |
| Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael - 1886 - 870 pages
...the Peter Wentworth who suffered for his boldness of speech under Elizabeth, and had himself already given offence, in the last Parliament, by the freedom of his language. He is to be distinguished from Sir Thomas Wentworth, member for Yorkshire, who was returned to Parliament... | |
| Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead - 1896 - 706 pages
...Peter Wemworth who suffered for his boldness of speech under Elizabeth, and had himself already yiven offence, in the last Parliament, by the freedom of his language. He is to be distinguished from Sir Thomas Wentworth, member for Yorkshire, who was returned to Parliament... | |
| Ridgwell Cullum - 1903 - 368 pages
...fact that his horse had been under the saddle for nearly eight hours Horrocks rode at a great pace. He was one of those men who are always to be found on the prairie — thorough horsemen. Men who, in times of leisure, care more for their horses than... | |
| William Richard Cutter - 1918 - 660 pages
...the direction of a more symmetrical career, whether in his business relations or in his private life. He was one of those men who are always to be found in enterprises where good judgment, decision of character and strict integrity are needed. To a fine natural... | |
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