 | David Nasmith - 1873 - 552 pages
...of London, falling on his knees, exclaimed, ' I protest my heart melteth for joy that Almighty Godr of his singular mercy, has given us such a King as since Christ's time hath not been.' The year 1 62 1 is memorable for the revival of impeachments ; for the scandalous treatment of Floyd1... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1875 - 660 pages
...the special assistance of God's Spirit ;" and the Bishop of London fell upon his knees and said : " I protest my heart melteth for joy that Almighty God,...mercy, has given us such a king as since Christ's time has not been." A brilliant modern English writer, expressing the verdict of history, says of that king:... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1876 - 694 pages
...Majesty speaks by the special assistance of God's spirit " ; and Bancroft fell upon his knees and said, " I protest my heart melteth for joy, that Almighty...mercy, has given us such a king as since Christ's time has not been." " No bishop, no king," was the apothegm in which the monarch expressed at once the gratuitous... | |
 | - 1883 - 980 pages
...special assistance of God's spirit." Bancroft, the Bishop of London, fell upon his knees, crying : " I protest my heart melteth for joy, that Almighty...a king as since Christ's time hath not been." And indeed the bishop was partly right ; it would be hard to find the like of King James, who may have... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1898 - 376 pages
...these words : ' I protest my heart melteth ' for joy that Almighty God, of His singular mercy, hath ' given us such a King as since Christ's time hath not been.' Right reverend, my heart, on the whole, doth not melt.— Likewise, in regard to that afflictive chimera... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1903 - 334 pages
...Bancroft upon his knees. " Your Majesty speaks by the special assistance of God's Spirit," said he ; "I protest my heart melteth for joy that Almighty...mercy, has given us such a king as since Christ's time has not been." In his gushing sycophancy the bishop forgot Nero, of the first century, also Philip... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1903 - 330 pages
...Bancroft upon his knees. "Your Majesty speaks by the special assistance of God,s Spirit," said he ; "I protest my heart melteth for joy that Almighty...singular mercy, has given us such a king as since Christ,s time has not been." In his gushing sycophancy the bishop forgot Nero, of the first century,... | |
 | 1863 - 868 pages
...knees, exclaiming, "I protest my heart melteth with joy, that Almighty God of his singular mercy hath given us such a king as since Christ's time hath, not been." "Whitgift went beyond the Bishop of London in folly, when he declared that "his sovereign had undoubtedly... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1905 - 362 pages
...the special assistance ot God's Spirit ;" and the Bishop of London fell upon his knees and said : " 1 protest my heart melteth for joy that Almighty God,...mercy, has given us such a king as since Christ's time has not been." A brilliant modern English writer, expressing the verdict of history, says of that king:... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1906 - 536 pages
...spirit." And the bishop of London fell upon his knees and said, " I protest my heart melts within me for joy that Almighty God, of His singular mercy, has given us such a King as, since Christ's time, has not been." This was the beginning of those royal and prelatical revilings and persecutions of the... | |
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Christ again ; away with your snivelling," and much more that was coarse and offensive, the Primate exclaimed, " Your Majesty speaks by the special assistance of God's Spirit ;" and the Bishop of London fell upon his knees and said : " I protest my heart... 
