 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...very few hands filled the paper itself where the petition was written, and therefore many more sheetf were annexed for the reception of the numbers, which...to petitions of which they before had never heard." V. 621. Velis et remi*, omnibus nervit.] With both sails and oars, their whole strength. V. 637-8.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 560 pages
...say, to the blush, unless we be masters of our requests." V. 609. The Parliament drew up petitions.] When the seditious members of the House of Commons...to petitions of which they before had never heard." V. 621. Velis et remis, omnibus nervis.] With both sails and oars, their whole strength. V. 637-8.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Great Britain - 1819 - 390 pages
...a dispensation ? How will dissenting brethren relish it ? 630 What will malignants say ? Videlicet, itself was cut off, and a new one framed, agreeable...long list of names which was subscribed to the former t by this means, many men found their names subscribed to petitions, of which they before had never... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Great Britain - 1822 - 542 pages
...country to get it signed, and brought it up to the Parliament by as many as could be prevailed upon to do it. Their way of doing it, as Lord Clarendon...to petitions of which they before had never heard." V. 621. Vela et remit, omnibus nervis.] With both sails and oars, their whole strength. V. 637-8. For... | |
 | William Godwin - Great Britain - 1824 - 526 pages
...dutiful for the form, and for the matter not very unreasonable ; and that, when a multitude of hands was procured, the petition itself was cut off, and a new one framed suitable to the design in hand, and annexed to the long list of names already collected." But Neal... | |
 | Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1826 - 624 pages
...all the credit, and procured all the countenance, to the undertaking. When a multitude of hands was procured, the petition itself was cut off, and a new one framed, suitable to the design in hand, and annexed to the long list of names which were subscribed to the... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1826 - 628 pages
...all the credit, and procured all the countenance, to the undertaking. When a multitude of hands was procured, the petition itself was cut off, and a new one framed, suitable to the design in hand, and annexed to the long list of names which were subscribed to the... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 248 pages
...down into the country to their adherents to get it signed by the people. Lord Clarendon says that ' when a multitude of hands were procured, the petition...framed agreeable to the design in hand, and annexed to the list of names subscribed to the former ; so that many men found their names subscribed to petitions... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1862 - 496 pages
...agitation by means of petitions. Lord Clarendon states that in 1640, "when a multitude of hands was procured, the petition itself was cut off, and a new one framed suitable to the design in hand, and annexed to the long list of names, which were subscribed to the... | |
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... very few hands filled the paper itself where the petition was written, and therefore many more sheets were annexed for the reception of the numbers, which gave all the credit, and procured all the countenance to the undertaking. 
