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Croker is understood to contribute the St. Helena articles and the liberality, Mr. Canning the practical good sense, Mr. D'Israeli the good-nature, Mr. Jacob the modesty, Mr. This Journal, then, is a depository for every species of political sophistry and personal calumny. There is no abuse or corruption that does not there find a jesuitical palliation or a bare-faced vindication.
John Fenn. Thomas Cooper. Luke Astwood. John Croker. The late Mr. Kilpin of Bedford considered the whole of this letter to be entered in the minutes in Bunyan's hand-writing.
Italy was published simultaneously in London and Paris in June, 1821, and produced an even greater sensation than the work on France, though Croker declared that it fell dead from the press, and devoted the greater part of his 'review' in the Quarterly to an analysis of Colburn's methods of advertisement.
Romney, the painter, who has now deservedly established a high reputation. Croker, 'on the reputation of painters. What is a picture of Romney now worth? The wheel is come full circle, and Mr. Croker's note is as curious as the work that he suggests. Thurlow. Wedderburne. Boswell wrote to Temple on May 1: 'Luckily Dr. Taylor has begged of Dr.
I had already, I said, visited the Indians of Cape Croker, Saugeen, Sauble, and the Grand River, and had now made up my mind to make Sarnia my head-quarters, and to build a church in their midst.
Her bearing at her first Council filled the whole gathering with astonishment and admiration; the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, even the savage Croker, even the cold and caustic Greville all were completely carried away. Everything that was reported of her subsequent proceedings seemed to be of no less happy augury.
Tragi-comic distress of my good friend on the marriage of her presumptive heir with a daughter of Lucien Bonaparte. October 20. Commanded down to pass a day at Windsor. This is very kind of His Majesty. At breakfast, Crofton Croker, author of the Irish Fairy Tales little as a dwarf, keen-eyed as a hawk, and of very prepossessing manners. Something like Tom Moore.
This is perhaps in some respects an advantage; for, when I do warm, I am the most vehement speaker in the House, and nothing strikes an audience so much as the animation of an orator who is generally cold. I ought to tell you that Peel was very civil, and cheered me loudly; and that impudent leering Croker congratulated the House on the proof which I had given of my readiness.
Croker has never read that passage; and yet we can scarcely suppose that any person who has ever perused so noble and pathetic a story can have utterly forgotten all its most striking circumstances. "Lord Townshend," says Mr.
Cooperation with the Bar Association, the Taxpayers' Association, and other similar organizations evidenced a desire of reform from without. Kelly "bossed" the Hall until his death, June 1, 1886. He was succeeded by Richard Croker, a machinist, prizefighter, and gang-leader.
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