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Thence to the Old Exchange together, he telling me that he believes there will be no such turning out of great men as is talked of, but that it is only to fright people, but I do fear there may be such a thing doing. He do mightily inveigh against the folly of the King to bring his matters to wrack thus, and that we must all be undone without help.
But he soon began to learn how serious, how disheartening, is the condition of one who finds society arrayed against him. It is the fashion to inveigh against the "cold and pitiless world"; but the world has often much excuse for maintaining this character.
It was merely a question of one man, and he awake, having power to act without first submitting a request to somebody in triplicate on blue-form B. The time came, after a month or two, when even natives dared to leave their houses after dark. The time came very soon, indeed, when the nearest tribes began to hold war councils and inveigh against the falling off of the supply of plunder.
O'Melachlin first tried persuasion, but in conference with De Lacy he dared inveigh loudly against the King of England, and, as his words must have expressed the feelings of the great majority of the people, we give them: "Notwithstanding his promise of supporting me in the possession of my wealth and dignities, he has sent robbers to invade my patrimony.
"You are the last who ought to say so." "If the truth were known, I should be among the first. For I am one of the few who see clearly how wicked I was." He began to inveigh against his generation, but broke off with a discouraged gesture: "None of that does any good.... Tell me about yourself." His voice was so humble that Moreau was really touched to see the older man blame himself so severely.
An old Minorite monk, to whom he compassionately gave his horse, is the witness I mentioned. At the tavern the priest told him what he had beheld with his own eyes. Do you still inveigh against the dangerous beast, which acts like the good Samaritan, and finds nothing more delightful than hearing or speaking of our dear saint?"
The Ministers of Austria, Prussia, and Russia have expressed their readiness to acquiesce in anything proposed by this country. They may inveigh against the diplomacy of England, but in moments of danger all rally under our wing.
A few years before, he used to be savage, and inveigh against all parsons, scholars, and the like declaring that they were a pack of humbugs, and quacks that weren't fit to get their living but by grinding Latin and Greek, and a set of supercilious dogs that pretended to look down upon British merchants and gentlemen, who could buy up half a hundred of 'em.
It was natural that the address on the reopening of Drury Lane theatre should be written by "the world's new joy" the first great English poet-peer; as natural as that in his only published satire of the period he should inveigh against almost the only amusement in which he could not share.
Moreover, she never ceased to inveigh against my father saying that he had sought to be better than other people, and thereby had brought himself to a bad end; that he had left his wife and daughter destitute; and that, but for the fact that we had happened to meet with a kind and sympathetic Christian soul, God alone knew where we should have laid our heads, save in the street.
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