 | Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...Speaker Lenthal, requiring to be told ; but Lenthal, kneeling, humbly desired to be excused, saying : " I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...to what your Majesty is pleased to demand of me." unto me as soon aa they return hither. ... I will trouble yon no more, bnt tell yon I do expect, as... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1793 - 268 pages
...any of them were in the house ? the speaker falling on his knee, prudently replied : " I have, sir, neither " eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the " house i1 pleased to direct me, whose servant I am : and " I humbly ask pardon, that I cannot give any other... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - Huntingdonshire (England) - 1808 - 306 pages
...much prudence falling on his knee, answered the King to this purpose : ' May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in...pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg your Majestie's pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this, to what your Majesty... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 884 pages
...much prudence falling on his knee, answered the King to this purpose: ' May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in...pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg your Majestie's pardon that 1 cannot give any other answer than this, to what your Majesty... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - Trials - 1809 - 768 pages
...the Speaker, falling on Ins knee, thu» answered : ' May it please your majesty ; I have nei' ther eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this ' place, but...pleased to direct ' me, whose servant I am here; and humbly ' beg your majesty's pardon, that I cannot give ' any other answer than this to what your ma'... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1810 - 772 pages
...Speaker, with admirable presence of mind, falling on his knee, auswered, " May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased • of their opponents, eriginated in these Tumuli-. It was then the custom of the London apprentices... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - London (England) - 1810 - 762 pages
...Speaker, with admirable presence of mind, falling on his knee, answered, " May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as tbe House is pleased of their opponents, originated in these Tumults. It was then the custom of the... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 506 pages
...prudently replied : " I have, sir, ^_ " neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in this place, ,6i2 " but as the house is pleased to direct me, whose servant " I am. And I humbly ask pardon, that I cannot give " any other answer to what your majesty is pleased to "... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 604 pages
...these persons were in the house? The speaker, falling on his knee, prudently replied : " I have, Sir, neither eyes to see, nor '* tongue to speak, in this...house is " pleased to direct me, whose servant I am. And «* I humbly ask pardon, that I cannot give any other *' answer to what Your Majesty is pleased... | |
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