 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 388 pages
...obtained no relief, and which really are the bane and torment of his life. Now, if my excellent labourer were to send for a physician, and to consult him respecting...wealth and your power have been owing, not to the dehased and corrupted parts of the House of Commons, but to the many independent and honourable members... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1845 - 496 pages
...these pains in your stomach. Have you not grown rich with these pains in your stomach ? nave not you risen under them from poverty to prosperity? has not...your pains in the stomach — and you would have been much richer and greater people if you had never had them at all. Your wealth and your power have been... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 pages
...not rich in consequence of the pains in my stomach, but in spite of the pains in my stomach ; and 1 should have been ten times richer^ and fifty times...stomach — and you would have been a much richer aud greater people if you had never had them at all. Your wealth and your power have been owing, not... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1859 - 376 pages
...obtained no relief, and which really are the bane and torment of his life. Now, if my excellent labourer were to send for a physician, and to consult him respecting...at all." Gentlemen, these rotten boroughs are your VOL. IL pains in the stomach — and you would have been a much richer and greater people if you had... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1861 - 352 pages
...been ten times richer, and fifty times happier, if I had never had any pains in my stomach at all." 6. Gentlemen, these rotten boroughs are your pains in...stomach ; — and you would have been a much richer and greatci people, if you had never had them at all. Your wealth and your power have been owing, not to... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1865 - 478 pages
...times happier, if I had never had any pains in my * From * speech on the Reform Bill, at Taunton. I stomach at alL" Gentlemen, these rotten boroughs are your pains in the stomach—and you would have been a much richer raid greater people if you had nevcr had them at all.... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1870 - 842 pages
...rhubarb! (he would say) I am not rich in consequence of the pains in my stomach, but in spite of ihe pains in my stomach ; and I should have been ten times...Gentlemen, these rotten boroughs are your pains in the stomach—and you would have been a much richer and greater people if you had never had them at all.... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1870 - 470 pages
...times happier, if I had never had any pains in my * From a speech on the Reform Bill, at Tauntou. I stomach at all." Gentlemen, these rotten boroughs are your pains in the stomach—and you would have been a much richer and greater people if you had never had them at all.... | |
 | George Shaw (author of Rambles about Filey.) - 1880 - 264 pages
...say, ' I am not rich in consequence of the pains in my stomach, but in spite of them ; and I would have been ten times richer, and fifty times happier,...never had them at all. Your wealth and your power has been owing, not to the debased and corrupted parts of the House of Commons, but to the many independent... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 610 pages
...beat Mrs. Partington. — (Supporting the Reform Bill. Taunton, 1831.) Post Quod, Propter Quod — They tell you, gentlemen, that you have grown rich...these rotten boroughs are your pains in the stomach. Taxes the Price of Glory — John Bull can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable 447 Smith, Sydney... | |
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You surely will not be so foolish and so indiscreet as to part with the pains in your stomach?" — Why, what would be the answer of the rustic to this nonsensical monition ? " Monster of rhubarb ! (he would say) I am not rich in consequence of the pains... 
