 | Englishmen - 1836 - 258 síður
...of the exchequer, his friend and patron having frequently assured him, in confidence, that he wished to divide the fame, profits, and labour of conducting...of Ovidian memory, was thrown from the box, as he says, by the baseness and treachery of the first coachman. 1 He was appointed a commissioner of the... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 528 síður
...of the Exchequer, his friend and patron having frequently assured him, in confidence, that he wished to divide the fame; profits, and labour of conducting public affairs with him,—our hero, like a certain well-known ambitious young man of Ovidian memory, was thrown from the... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 534 síður
...in confidence, that he wished to divide the fame, profits, and labour of conducting public atf'airs with him, — our hero, like a certain wellknown ambitious...of Ovidian memory, was thrown from the box, as he says, by the baseness and treachery of the first coachman. 1 He was appointed a commissioner of the... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 síður
...uf the exchequer, his friend and patron having frequently assured him, iu confidence, that he wished to divide the fame, profits, and labour of conducting...ambitious young man of Ovidian memory, was thrown from the ttox, as he says, by the baseness and treachery of the first coachman. 1 He was appointed a commissioner... | |
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... midst of victory, flushed with success, and running at the rate of fourteen knots an hour, with every sail set, and in the warmest expectation of at least procuring at a short day the chancellorship of the exchequer, his friend and patron having frequently... 