 | 1858 - 652 pages
...thenceforward I durst not say sir, master, my lord, madame, or my dame, or say your servant to any to whom I did not stand in the real relation of a servant, which I had never done to my. Again, respect of persons in uncovering the bead, and bowing the knee or body, in salutations,... | |
 | Charles Evans - 1876 - 702 pages
...never done to any. "Again: respect of persons, in uncovering the bead, and bowing the knee or bodv in salutations, was a practice I had been much in...introduced by the spirit of the world instead of the true honor, which this is a false representation of, and used in deceit, as a token of respect, by persons... | |
 | Charles Evans - 1876 - 684 pages
...from. So that thenceforward I durst not say, Sir, Master, My Lord, Madam, (or My Dame,) or say Your Servant, to any one to whom I did not stand in the real relation of a servant, which I have never done to any. " Again : respect of persons, in uncovering the head, and bowing the knee or... | |
 | Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury, Thomas Ellwood - 1877 - 392 pages
...that thenceforward I durst not say, "sir," "master," "my lord," "madam" (or " my dame"), or say, "your servant," to any one to whom I did not stand in the...introduced by the spirit of the world, instead of the true honor, which this is a false representation of, and used in deceit, as a token of respect, by persons... | |
 | Thomas Ellwood - 1885 - 296 pages
...from. So that thenceforward I durst not say, Sir, Master, My Lord, Madam (or My Dame) ; or say Your Servant to any one to whom I did not stand in the...uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of... | |
 | Thomas Ellwood - 1900 - 312 pages
...from. So that thenceforward I durst not say, Sir, Master, My Lord, Madam (or My Dame) ; or say Your Servant to any one to whom I did not stand in the...uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of... | |
 | William James - 1902 - 604 pages
...from. So that thenceforward I durst not say, Sir, Master, My Lord, Madam (or My Dame) ; or say Your Servant to any one to whom I did not stand in the...uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of ; and this, being one of the vain customs... | |
 | 1905 - 870 pages
...others was "that thenceforward I dare not say sir, master, my lord, madam, or say your servant to anyone to whom I did not stand in the real relation of a...persons, in uncovering the head and bowing the knee and body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in use of. I found this to be one of those evils... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Book Committee - 1912 - 342 pages
...from. So that thenceforward I durst not say Sir, Master, My Lord, Madam (or My Dame) ; or say Your Servant to any one to whom I did not stand in the...of a servant, which I had never done to any. Again the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one instead... | |
 | William James - 1988 - 1410 pages
...from. So that thenceforward I durst not say, Sir, Master, My Lord, Madam (or My Dame); or say Your Servant to any one to whom I did not stand in the...uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of... | |
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... which such titles could be pretended to belong. This was an evil I had been much addicted to, and was accounted a ready artist in ; therefore this evil also was I required to put away and cease from : so that thenceforward I durst not say Sir, Master,... 
