 | Sir James Caldwell - Great Britain - 1766 - 440 pages
...Characteriftics, which, by a penetrating Eye, may be feen through all their Difguifes. They very often aflame their Mother's Name, and pretend, that their Father...Oppofition againft the Court was made, by a numerous Party, but, forne time afterwards, rinding themfelves miftaken, they accepted of Court Preferment, and tacitly... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 518 pages
...kingdom, and have with great success played both upon our weakness and our virtues. They very often assume their mother's name, and pretend that their father was Integrity, a gentleman of very honourable descent, who, having of late times been much neglected by persons of power and interest, has fallen... | |
 | John Gordon Swift MacNeill - Constitutional history - 1925 - 284 pages
...and have with great success played both .... upon our weakness and our virtue. They very often assume their mother's name, and pretend that their father was Integrity — a gentleman of very honourable descent — who, having of late years been much neglected by persons of power and interest, has fallen... | |
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... character and qualifications. Self-interest was the father by whom Public Spirit has a numerous issue, distinguished by the name of Job. Many of them have come over hither from a neighbouring kingdom, and have with great success played both upon our... 