 Neither is there wanting daily, handsome occasion to retire, were it not for grinning honour. For let occasion be never so handsome, unless a man were resolved to fight on the parliament side, which, for my part, I had rather be hanged, it will be said...  Peerage of England. ... - Page 397de Arthur Collins - 1812Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Pythouse papers - 1879 - 222 pages
...rather be hanged) it will be said, without doubt, that a man is afraid to fight. If there could bean expedient found to salve the punctilio of honour,...not continue here an hour. The discontent that I and other honest men receive daily, is beyond expression." Not among the Cavaliers alone was the approach... | |
 | William Ansell Day - 1879 - 222 pages
...rather be hanged) it will be said, without doubt, that a man is afraid to fight. If there could bean expedient found to salve the punctilio of honour,...not continue here an hour. The discontent that I and other honest men receive daily, is beyond expression." Not among the Cavaliers alone was the approach... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1886 - 598 pages
...the Parliament side, which, for my part, I had rather be hanged, it will be said without doubt that a man is afraid to fight. If there could be an expedient...other honest men receive daily is beyond expression." 2 1 LJ v. 376. 2 Spencer to Lady Spencer, Sept. 2 1 . Sidney Papere, ii. 667. 1642. Sept. 20. Charles... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1886 - 602 pages
...the Parliament side, which, for my part, I had rather be hanged, it will be said without doubt that a man is afraid to fight. If there could be an expedient...other honest men receive daily is beyond expression." 2 1 LJ v. 376. 2 Spencer to Lady Spencer, Sept. 2 1 . Sidney Papers, ii. 667. CHAP. Into this desire... | |
 | 1887 - 992 pages
...the other scribes and Pharisees." From the first this dislike for his new surroundings is evident. "The discontent that I and many other honest men receive daily is beyond expression," he writes to his wife from Shrewsbury, a month after the raising of the standard. "How much I am unsatisfied... | |
 | 1887 - 548 pages
...the other scribes and Pharisees." From the first this dislike for his new surroundings is evident. "The discontent that I and many other honest men receive daily is beyond expression," he writes to his wife from Shrewsbury, a month after the raising of the standard. " How much I am unsatisfied... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1901 - 324 pages
...course open save to throw in 1 Writing to his wife shortly before his death, Lord Sunderland confessed : "If there could be an expedient found to salve the punctilio of honour, I would not continue here [with the King] an hour. The discontent that I, and many other honest men, receive daily, is beyond... | |
 | 1903 - 468 pages
...whose quarrel it was."2 In the same tone Lord Spencer writes to his wife from the King's quarters, " If there could be an expedient found to salve the punctilio of honour, I would not continue here an hour."3 Again, most people must have read the story of the King's pathetic speech and his allusion... | |
 | 1843 - 522 pages
...the parliament side, which, for my part, I had rather he hanged, it will he said without doubt that a man is afraid to fight. If there could be an expedient...punctilio of honour, I would not continue here an hour." And although he did fight in the royal cause, and most gallantly, in the first engagement that took... | |
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