 | Charles Henry Parry - 1839 - 726 pages
...Extortioner. AVhat shall we do with this Bauble? Here, take it away. It is you who 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." (Commanding the Soldiers to clear the Hall, he goes out last himself, ana ordering the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 476 pages
...Harry Vane !" Then turning to the other gentlemen, he said, " It is you thai 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!" Then pointing to the mace, " Take away," said he, " that bauble." After which, turning... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...there were present between eighty and a hundred, exclaimed, " It's you that have forced me to this; for I have sought the Lord night and day, that he would...slay me than put me upon the doing of this work." Here Alderman Allen would have persuaded him to proceed no further, telling him that, if he would only... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 332 pages
...Cromwell, again addressing the members, said, " It is you that forced me to this ; for I have besought the Lord, night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work." He then seized the papers, turned the members out of the house, and locked the doors. Such was the... | |
 | 1863 - 518 pages
...take it away. It is yon,' 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1844 - 542 pages
...members, by name, with their vices. " It is you," continued he, " that have forced me upon this. ii. 1 have sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon this work." — Then pointing to the mace — " Take Sir Harry Vane, away," cried he, " that bauble."... | |
 | John Russell (A. M., of Philadelphia.) - 1844 - 250 pages
...vices. Then addressing himself to the house, " It is you who have compelled me to this. I intreated the Lord night and day that he would rather slay me than put this commission upon me." After which, the soldiers having turned out the members, he ordered the doors... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - 1845 - 784 pages
...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...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, calling him by his... | |
 | 1846 - 730 pages
...dissolution of Parliament effected, than Cromwell was heard to say, " It's you who have forced me to this. I have sought the Lord, night and day, that he would...slay me than put me upon the doing of this work." But it was done, and when the first gust of passion had passed Cromwell was himself again, and took the... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pages
...this as he reads what Cromwell said of the Long Parliament ? ' It's you that have forced me to this. I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would...slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.' Faults he undoubtedly had ; and some evils unquestionably arose out of his possession of absolute authority;... | |
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I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work. 
