 I was led to expect an examination at the bar of the house, touching my sufficiency for the post I had taken. Being necessarily ignorant of the nature of that business, it became expedient that I should visit the office daily, in order to qualify myself...  Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper, Esq - الصفحة 36بواسطة William Cowper - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 130عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...examination at the bar of the house, touching my sufficiency for the post I had taken. Being necessarily ignorant of the nature of that business, it became...been as welcome to me as this intelligence. I knew that, upon such terms, the Clerkship of i 1 - s Journals was no place for me. To require my attendance... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...examination at the bar of the house, touching my sufficiency for the post I had taken. Being necessarily ignorant of the nature of that business, it became...been as welcome to me as this intelligence. I knew that, upon such terms, the Clerkship of the Journals was no place for me. To require my attendance... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...post I had taken. Being necessarily ignorant of the nature of that business, it became expedient C 2 that I should visit the office daily, in order to...been as welcome to me as this intelligence. I knew that, upon such terms, the Clerkship of the Journals was no place for me. To require my attendance... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...examination before the bar of the House, touching my fitness for the post I had taken. Being necessarily ignorant of the nature of that business, it became...strictest scrutiny. All the horror of my fears and palpitations now returned : a thunderbolt would have been as welcome to me as this intelligence. I... | |
 | 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...examination at the bar of the house, touching my sufficiency for the post I had taken. Being necessarily ignorant of the nature of that business, it became...order to qualify myself for the strictest scrutiny. AH the horror of my fears and perplexities now returned ; a thunderbolt would have been as welcome... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 740
...examination at the bar of the House, touching my sufficiency for the post I had taken. Being necessarily ignorant of the nature of that business, it became...horror of my fears and perplexities now returned. I knew, to demonstration, that upon these terms the clerkship of the journals was no place for me.... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...examination at the bar of the house, touching my sufficiency for the post I had taken. Being necessarily ignorant of the nature of that business, it became...been as welcome to me as this intelligence. I knew that, upon such terms, the Clerkship of the Journals was no place for me. To require my attendance... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 790
...examination at the bar of the house, touching my sufficiency for the po-it I had taken. Being necessarily ignorant of the nature of that business, it became...strictest scrutiny. All the horror of my fears and ptrple cities now returned. A thunderbolt would have been as welcome to mo as this intelligence. 1... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...fitnefs for the office. Cowper's feelings upon the occafion are beft defcribed in his own words : " All the horror of my fears and perplexities now returned...as welcome to me as this intelligence. I knew, to demonftration, that upon thefe terms, the clerkfhip of the journals was no place for me. To require... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...strictest scrutiny. This brought back the whole horror of his fears and perplexities. He knew to a demonstration that upon these terms the Clerkship of the Journals was no place for him. Nevertheless, his friend's honor and interest, and his own reputation and circumstances, made... | |
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