 To-day a bill for 1100Z. was laid before me for signature, but I would sooner have cut off my right hand than sign that paper (cheers), for I have not the slightest ground to expect that' when that bill becomes due there will be a penny to pay it with.  The Last Boer War - Page 68by Henry Rider Haggard - 1899 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1880 - 932 pages
...was laid before me for signature, but I would have sooner cut off my right hand than sign that paper, for I have not the slightest ground to expect that...becomes due there will be a penny to pay it with." Can anyone say that a State in such a deplorable condition that it could not calculate on meeting such... | |
 | Thomas Fortescue Carter - Transvaal (South Africa) - 1883 - 662 pages
...position ; they have become demoralized ; they are not what they ought to be. 'To-day a bill for ^noo was laid before me for signature ; but I would sooner have cut off my right hand than sign that paper, for I have not the slightest ground to expect that when that bill becomes due there will be a penny... | |
 | John Nixon (writer on South Africa.) - 1885 - 434 pages
...become demoralized ; they are not what they ought to be." (Cheers.) ****** "To-day a bill for 1100/. was laid before me for signature, but I would sooner...becomes due there will be a penny to pay it with." •*•*•• " The principal thing which had brought them to their present position was that to which... | |
 | John Nixon - Transvaal (South Africa) - 1885 - 440 pages
...become demoralized ; they are not what they ought to be." (Cheers.) ****** "To-day a bill for 1100Z. was laid before me for signature, but I would sooner...becomes due there will be a penny to pay it with." * ***** " The principal thing which had brought them to their present position was that to which they... | |
 | John Procter - Great Britain - 1897 - 266 pages
...become demoralised, they are not what they ought to be. (Cheers.) " * # * # "To-day a bill for £1100 was laid before me for signature, but I would sooner...have not the slightest ground to expect that when the bill becomes due there will be a penny to pay it with." » # * * "The principal thing which had... | |
 | Sir Percy Fitzpatrick - Jameson's Raid, 1895-1896 - 1899 - 498 pages
...position ; they have become demoralised ; they are not what they ought to be.' 'To-day a bill for £1,100 was laid before me for signature; but I would sooner have cut off my right hand than sign that paper, for I have not the slightest ground to expect that when that bill becomes due there will be a penny... | |
 | Percy Fitzpatrick - Jameson's Raid, 1895-1896 - 1899 - 468 pages
...position ; they have become demoralised ; they are not what they ought to be.' ' To-day a bill for £1,100 was laid before me for signature ; but I would sooner have cut off my right hand than sign that paper, for I have not the slightest ground to expect that when that bill becomes due there will be a penny... | |
 | Alleyne Ireland - South Africa - 1900 - 160 pages
...before me for signature ; but I would sooner have cut oft" my right hand than have signed that paper, for I have not the slightest ground to expect that,...becomes due, there will be a penny to pay it with." Continuing, President Burgers said that to take up arms and fight was nonsense. Let them make the best... | |
 | Edwin A. Pratt - South Africa - 1900 - 422 pages
...want justice we must be in a position to ask it with unsullied hands. . . . To-day a bill for ^1,100 was laid before me for signature, but I would sooner have cut off my right hand than sign that paper, for I have not the slightest ground to expect that when that bill becomes due there will be a penny... | |
 | Percy Fitzpatrick - Jameson's Raid, 1895-1896 - 1900 - 400 pages
...they have become demoralized ; they are not what they onght to be. ' ****** 'To day a bill for £1,100 was laid before me for signature ; but I would sooner have cut off my right hand thau sign that paper, for I have not the slightest ground to expect that when that Dill becomes due... | |
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