 | David Hume - 1869 - 822 pages
...Here, tuke it away. It is you," said he, addressing himself to the House, " that have forced me upon this. I have sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon this work." Having commanded the soldiers to clear the hall, he himself went out the last, and, ordering... | |
 | Elizabeth Penrose - 1869 - 528 pages
...you; ho has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work .... It is you that have forced me upon this. I have sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon this work." He stayed till the hall was empty; then ordering the doors to be locked, he put the keys... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1872 - 822 pages
...Here, take it away. It is you," said he, addressing himself to the House, "that have forced me upon this. I have sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon this work." Having commanded the soldiers to clear the hall, he himself went out the last, and, ordering... | |
 | Sara King Wiley - 1900 - 232 pages
...Guards, clear the house! [The members pass out.] It is you, you who have forced me to do this! For I have sought the Lord night and day that He would rather slay me than put me on the doing of this work! SCENE III. A room in Whitehall. Lights upon a table where lies CROMWELL'S... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - History - 1901 - 418 pages
...was driven from the House. " You have forced me to do it," said Cromwell sadly, his wrath all gone. " I have sought the Lord night and day that He would...slay me than put me upon the doing of this work." Then he ordered the House to be locked. The French minister reported to his government that some one... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1901 - 380 pages
...nominal resistance. " It's you," said Cromwell as they filed past him, "that have forced me to this, for I have sought the Lord night and day that He would...slay me than put me upon the doing of this work." Glancing at the mace he asked "What shall we do with this bauble ? " Ordering Captain Scott to remove... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 526 pages
...Long Parliament is dissolved ! " It's you that have forced me to this," exclaims my Lord General: " I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would...slay me than put me upon the doing of this work." At their going out, some say the Lord General said to young Sir Harry Vane, calling him by his name,... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - History, Modern - 1901 - 944 pages
...the undertaking, he seemed to shrink from assuming the burdens and responsibilities laid upon him. " I have sought the Lord night and day that he would...slay me than put me upon the doing of this work," were his words while clearing the hall of the Long Parliament. •; ' [' •> • ^ . ,/ / Praise-God... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1902 - 1118 pages
...it away." "It is you," he said to such of the members as still lingered, " that have forced me to do this. I have sought the Lord night and day, that He...slay me than put me upon the doing of this work." 11. The so-called Barebone's Parliament. 1653. — Cromwell and the officers shrank from summoning... | |
 | Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - Constitutional history - 1902 - 404 pages
...number present upon that eventful April day. " It is you," said Cromwell, to a prominent City member, " who have forced me to this. I have sought the Lord...night and day that he would rather slay me, than put upon me the doing of this work." Alderman Allen's practical observation was, that things had not yet... | |
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I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work. 
