| Elizabeth Penrose - 1869 - 528 páginas
...has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work .... It is you that have forced me upon this. I have sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon this work." He stayed till the hall was empty; then ordering the doors to be locked, he put the keys in his pocket,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 436 páginas
...Parliament is dissolved ! " ' It's ' you that have forced me to this,' " exclaims my Lord General : " ' I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather ' slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.' " ' At their ' going out, some say the Lord General said to young Sir Harry... | |
| David Hume - 1872 - 822 páginas
...take it away. It is you," said he, addressing himself to the House, "that have forced me upon this. I have sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon this work." Having commanded the soldiers to clear the hall, he himself went out the last, and, ordering the doors... | |
| David Hume - 1873 - 812 páginas
...take it away. It is you," said he, addressing himself to the House, " that have forced me upon this. I have sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon this work." Having commanded the soldiers to clear the hall, he himself went out the last, and, ordering the doors... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 668 páginas
...Long Parliament is dissolved ! " It 's you that have forced me to this," exclaims my Lord General : " I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work." At their going out, some say the Lord General said to young Sir Harry Vane,... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 páginas
...Long Parliament is dissolved! " It's you that have forced me to this !" exclaims my Lord General. " I have sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work." 20 At their going out, some say the Lord General said to young Sir Harry Vane,... | |
| Frederic Harrison - 1898 - 248 páginas
...not common honesty. " It is you," he said, as they passed him, " that have forced me to do this, for I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me on the doing of this work." He snatched the Bill of dissolution from the hand of the clerk, put it... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1899 - 542 páginas
...is you that have forced me to this," Cromwell exclaimed, as he drove the members from the House ; " I have sought the Lord night and day that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work." The act was one of violence to the members of the House, but the act which... | |
| Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 páginas
...who were in number between 8o and 1oo, and said to them, 'It's you that have forced me to this, for I have sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me- upon the doing of this work.' Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs (edited by CH Firth, Oxford, 1894), I, 351-354Ludlow... | |
| Josephus Nelson Larned - 1900 - 730 páginas
...clear the House. As the members went out he cried to them : " It is you who have forced me to this; for I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work." This violent act of Cromwell's is not easily to be judged, for the reason... | |
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