 | 1857 - 850 páginas
...opinion to that which was urged by the Duke, who at last good-humoredly said to him, ‘My dear C—, I can yield to your superior information on most points,...will maintain my point about the percussion caps.'” In October 1836 the Luxor Obelisk was placed, to the great glorification of the Parisians.— “Tuesday,... | |
 | Thomas Raikes - 1857 - 442 páginas
...opinion to that which was urged by the Duke, who at •ti good-humouredly said to him, " My dear C , * can yield to your superior information on most points, and you may perhaps know a great deal m ore of what passed at "Waterloo than myself, but 88 a sportsman, I will maintain my point about the... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1884 - 424 páginas
...conversation turning on percussion caps, this contradictory person again took the opposite view, when the Duke good-humouredly said to him : "My dear Croker, I can...will maintain my point about the percussion caps." A friend once said to Lord Wellesley at the castle: " I have had a very melancholy letter from Croker... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1903 - 710 páginas
...and then changed the subject to shooting, the Duke remarked good-naturedly, 'My dear Croker, you may know a great deal more of what passed at Waterloo...will maintain my point about the percussion caps.' The Duke remonstrated in vain when Croker insisted on bringing out his savage article on Soult in the... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1858 - 886 páginas
...dinner) on the question of using percussion-caps; whereu]«jn Wellington said to him, " My dear C——, I can yield to your superior information on most points, and you may, perhaps, know a ^reat deal more about what passed at Waterloo than myself; but, as a sportsman, I will maintain my... | |
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My dear Croker, I can yield to your superior information on most points, and you may perhaps know a great deal more of what passed at Waterloo than myself, but as a sportsman, I will maintain my point about the percussion caps. 