 | Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - 1152 pagini
...unscrupulous, class of caterers for public amusement : " Wit, my lords, is a sort of property ; it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. It is, indeed, but a precarious dependence. Thank God, we, my lords, have a dependence of another kind. * * * * I... | |
 | Arthur Patchett Martin - 1885 - 262 pagini
...of those that have it, and too often the only property they liave to depend on. It is, indeed, but a precarious dependence. Thank God, we, my lords, have a dependence of another kind. We have a much less precarious support, and therefore cannot feel the inconvenience of the bill now... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1888 - 500 pagini
...Lords that they had no right to put an excise upon wit ; and said, finely, " Wit, my Lords, is the property of those who have it, — and too often the...only property they have to depend on. It is, indeed, but a precarious dependence. Thank God ! " he said, " we, my Lords, have a dependence of another kind... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1891 - 296 pagini
...pride which no human breast is free from. /*. p. l82. Wit, my Lords, is a sort of property : it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have 1 See ante p. 22. 172 to depend on. It is indeed but a precarious dependence. Thank God ! we, my Lords,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 582 pagini
...but it is likewise an encroachment upon property. Wit, my Lords, is a sort of property ; it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. It is indeed but a precarious dependence. Thank God! we, my Lords, have a dependence of another kind ; we have a... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope - 1901 - 514 pagini
...liberty, but upon property likewise, and proceeds : — " Wit, my Lords, is a sort of property ; it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. It is indeed but a precarious dependence. Thank God! we, my Lords, have a dependence of another kind; we have a... | |
 | 1901 - 1160 pagini
...famous address to the House of Lords. " Wit, my lords, is a sort of property," said he ; " it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. It is indeed but a precarious dependence. Thank God ! we, my lords, have a dependence of another kind ; we have... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1901 - 172 pagini
...powerful protectors. "Wit," said Chesterfield, opposing an unjust licensing Act, " Wit, my lords ! is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on." Wit, indeed, with the other gifts that make good company, has largely gone with theatrical talents,... | |
 | Charles Whibley - 1902 - 344 pagini
...famous address to the House of Lords. " Wit, my lords, is a sort of property," said he; "it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. It is indeed but a precarious dependence. Thank God ! we, my lords, have a dependence of another kind ; we have... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1906 - 374 pagini
...polite Lord Chesterfield, who in his speech said wit was in itself a property. " It is, my lords, the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. It is indeed but a precarious dependence. Thank God we, my lords, have a dependence of another kind ; we have a... | |
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Wit, my Lords, is a sort of property; it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. It is indeed but a precarious dependence. Thank God! we, my Lords, have a dependence of another kind... 
