| 1833 - 796 pages
...former for his willingness to take office, and yet refuse to follow his example. I should have thought, that, what was sauce for the goose, was sauce for the gander. POPLAR — My opinion upon that subject remains unaltered. Had the Duke been seconded as he should... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1928 - 1000 pages
...The gentleman had been very strenuous for that principle on another occasion, and it was an old maxim that "what was sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander." The question was then put upon the adoption of the same, and was decided in the affirmative. And the... | |
| American essays - 1893 - 958 pages
...allowing it to adjourn, and by refusing to sign a draft on the treasury for the pay of members. He thought that what was sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander. Belcher, in England, as soon as he learned of Burnet's sudden death in Boston, at once began his efforts... | |
| Thomas Guthrie - Scottish literature - 1866 - 230 pages
...were drenched, he was drowned. Of course, we felt for our courteous and civil driver, and we thoughi that what was sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander, and we offered him a glass; but the carman was not such a gander as we, like geese, took him for; to... | |
| Joseph Parkes - 1867 - 508 pages
...that of his neighbours. Francis contended for the truth of the true though vulgar old English proverb, that what was sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander. A boy-premier, such as the Duke of Grafton, who, though married, appeared in public, and in the presence... | |
| Thomas Guthrie, David Kelley Guthrie - Presbyterians - 1875 - 534 pages
...School in Edinburgh. He was soaking with wet, and we offered him a good rummer of toddy. We thought that what was ' sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander,' — but the car-driver was not such a gander as we, like geese, took him for. He would not taste it.... | |
| Thomas Guthrie, David Kelly Guthrie - Clergy - 1875 - 536 pages
...School in Edinburgh. He was soaking with wet, and we offered him a good rummer of toddy. We thought that what was ' sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander,' — bat the ear-driver was not such a gander as we, like geese, took him for. lit would not taste it.... | |
| Thomas Guthrie - 1875 - 542 pages
...School in Edinburgh. He was soaking with wet, and we offered him a good rummer of toddy. We thought that what was ' sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander,' — but the car-driver was not such a gander as we, like geese, took him for. He would not taste it.... | |
| Young people - 1875 - 690 pages
...school in Edinburgh. He was soaking with wet, and we offered him a good rummer of toddy. We thought that what was ' sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander ' ; but the car-driver was not such a gander as we, like geese, took him for. He would not take it.... | |
| Frederick Sherlock - Temperance - 1879 - 272 pages
...Accordingly, we rushed into the inn, ordered warm water, and got our tumblers of toddy. We thought that what was ' sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander '— but the car-driver was not such a gander as we, like geese, took him for. He would not taste it.... | |
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