 He read the ominous hand-writing on the wall which announced that the Stuarts, unteachable even by execution and proscription, had been weighed in the balance and found wanting; and that the crown which they knew not how to wear should shortly be smitten...  Arthur Arundel: A Tale of the English Revolution - 第110页作者：Horace Smith - 1844全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1874 - 782 页
...merely sighed; and this sigh told Percy Stonleigh, as plainly as the writing upon the wall, that he had been weighed in the balance and found wanting, and that the sooner he blotted himself out the better. He enlisted in the nth Hussars, under an assumed name, and... | |
 | Wilkie Collins - 1865 - 654 页
...courage for which we have given him credit. It was not; it constituted, as we have already admitted, Ыв foible ; but his almost uniform escape from any ridicule...was not sanguine enough to expect, for he saw that (he infatuated monarch was not less obstinately bent upon establishing despotism than were the people... | |
 | William Torrens McCullagh Torrens - 1872 - 484 页
...summary method urged by his colleagues. The Resident was therefore directed to inform the Prince that he had been weighed in the balance and found wanting, and that the kingdom had departed from him. It was said by the apologists of the act, that the treaty of 1837 conferred... | |
 | 1899 - 962 页
...then showed that the college graduate had not always been a fit teacher for such a school, that he had been weighed in the balance and found wanting, and that the normal school graduate is often a poor craftsman. With no recognized standard of professional fitness... | |
 | 1899 - 658 页
...then showed that the college graduate had not always been a fit teacher for such a school, that he had been weighed in the balance and found wanting, and that the normal school graduate is often a poor craftsman. With no recognized standard of professional fitness... | |
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