 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1901 - 380 pages
...wrote Cromwell in reply, : " shall that render him incapable to serve the public ? . . . Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it—that satisfies. Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1901 - 664 pages
...systems,' and would have imposed them on others. Cromwell took broader ground. ' The State,' he said, ' in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions.' Milton, in his ' Areopagitica,' raised into a philosophical dogma what to Cromwell was a rule of practical... | |
 | Henry Skipton - 1901 - 256 pages
...Hence it will lose its Vital effect on them and become a mere formula. Quotations — " The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions." " Let us think it possible that we may be mistaken." — Oliver Cromwell. "And yet perhaps in the right,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1901 - 662 pages
...systems,' and would have imposed them on others. Cromwell took broader ground. ' The State,' he said, ' in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions.' Milton, in his ' Areopagitica,' raised into a philosophical dogma what to Cromwell was a rule of practical... | |
 | Irving Berdine Richman - 1902 - 298 pages
...who had cashiered one of his captains because he was thought to be an Anabaptist : " Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object... | |
 | Irving Berdine Richman - 1902 - 302 pages
...who had cashiered one of his captains because he was thought to be an Anabaptist: " Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object... | |
 | John Morley - 1903 - 680 pages
...ministers carried the day by a majority of 120. CHAPTER II AN EPISODE IN TOLERATION (1880-1S8S) THE state in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object... | |
 | John Morley - 1903 - 670 pages
...by a majority of 120. 1 March 25-6, 1881. CHAPTER II AN EPISODE IN TOLERATION (1880-188S) THE state, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object... | |
 | Dugald Butler - 1903 - 648 pages
...zealous major-general who had suspended and arrested a colonel for his opinions : " Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. — Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others against those to whom you can object... | |
 | 1920 - 452 pages
...Crawford, when the latter objected to a capable and trustworthy man on account of his religion, ' the State in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions,' expresses the general view of the modern English mird, and at the same time proves that the Protector's... | |
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Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies. 
