 I suppose something that I happened to say may have made him guess that I was somebody, and he went out of the room for a moment, I have no doubt to ask the office-keeper who I was, for when he came back he was altogether a different man, both in manner...  Patriotism and Empire - Page 100by John Mackinnon Robertson - 1900 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1869 - 246 pages
...in really a style so vain and so silly as to surprise me. I suppose something that I happened to say made him guess that I was somebody, and he went out...altogether a different man, both in manner and matter. All that I had thought was a charlatan-style disappeared, and he talked of the state of this country,... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1884 - 444 pages
...from his likeness to his pictures and the loss of an arm, I immediately recognised as Lord Nelson. He could not know who I was, but he entered at once into...altogether a different man, both in manner and matter. All that I had thought a charlatan style had vanished, and he talked of the state of this country and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1884 - 626 pages
...from his likeness to his pictures and the loss of an arm, I immediately recognised as Lord Nelson. He could not know who I was, but he entered at once into...altogether a different man, both in manner and. matter. All that I had thought a charlatan style had vanished, and he talked of the state of this country and... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1884 - 606 pages
...from his likeness to his pictures and the loss of an arm, I immediately recognised as Lord Nelson. He could not know who I was, but he entered at once into...altogether a different man, both in manner and matter. All that I had thought a charlatan style had vanished, and he talked of the state of this country and... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1885 - 492 pages
...from his likeness to his pictures and the loss of an arm, I immediately recognised as Lord Nelson. He could not know who I was, but he entered at once into...altogether a different man, both in manner and matter. All that I had thought a charlatan style had vanished, and he talked of the state of this country and... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 540 pages
...interesting interview. The Culunial ami War Offices seem then to have been under one head. VOL. II. 21 himself, and in, really, a style so vain and so silly...altogether a different man, both in manner and matter. All that I had thought a charlatan style had vanished, and he talked of the state of this country and... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1899 - 896 pages
...from his likeness to his pictures and the loss of an arm, I immediately recognized as Lord Nelson. lie could not know who I was, but he entered at once into...altogether a different man, both in manner and matter. All that I had thought a charlatan style had vanished, and he talked of the state of this country and... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1899 - 906 pages
...from his likeness to his pictures and the loss of an arm, I immediately recognized as Lord Nelson. He could not know who I was, but he entered at once into...came back he was altogether a different man, both in mauner and matter. All that I had thought a charlatan style had vanished, and he talked of the state... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1899 - 918 pages
...have made him gness that I was somebody, and he went ont of the room for a moment, I have no donbt to ask the office-keeper who I was, for when he came...altogether a different man, both in manner and matter. All that I had thonght a charlatan style had vanished, and he talked of the state of this conntry and... | |
 | Esther Meynell - 1913 - 362 pages
...conversation, for it was almost all on his side and all about himself, and in, really, a style so vain and silly as to surprise and almost disgust me. I suppose...altogether a different man, both in manner and matter. All that I had thought a charlatan style had vanished, and he talked of the state of this country and... | |
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