 | Charles Hare Simpkinson De Wesselow - 1905 - 304 pages
...members passed him, Cromwell fiercely addressed them. " It is you," he said, " that have forced me to do this, for I have sought the Lord night and day that He would rather slay me, than put me to the doing of this work." He caught up the Bill on the elections, had the doors locked, and returned... | |
 | C. H. Simpkinson - Biography & Autobiography - 1905 - 304 pages
...members passed him, Cromwell fiercely addressed them. "It is you," he said, " that have forced me to do this, for I have sought the Lord night and day that He would rather slay me, than put me to the doing of this work." He caught up the Bill on the elections, had the doors locked, and returned... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1906 - 417 pages
...of which he is. Cromwell's " Paint me as I am," and the more elaborate though not more memorable, " I have sought the Lord night and day that He would...slay me than put me upon the doing of this work," or his reputed saying of Charles, " We will cut off his head with the crown on it," all implied his... | |
 | Edward Latham - 1906 - 318 pages
...words. Preceded by : " Thy creatures, O Lord, have been my books, but Thy Holy Scriptures much more. '' I have sought the Lord night and day that he would...rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work. OLIVER CROMWELL (15991658)— referring to the dissoluiion of the Long Parliament, Apr. 20, 1653. Preceded... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - 1906 - 669 pages
...applied himself to the members of the House . . . and said to them, 'It is you that 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 ! ' (Then) Cromwell . . . ordered the House to be cleared of all the members... | |
 | History - 1909 - 320 pages
...The Lord deliver ine from Sir Harry Vane ! ' ' ..'{It is you that have forced me to this," he said. "'I have sought the Lord night and day that He would rather slay me than put upon me this work." He hurled hard names and abuse at the members as they passed out of the House.... | |
 | Charles Henry Fowler - Biography & Autobiography - 1910 - 331 pages
...vanished. They all vanished. The Rump Parliament was no more. Walking out, he said to Sir Harry Vane, "I have sought the Lord night and day that he would...rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work. It is you that have forced me to this. O, Sir Harry Vane, Sir Harry Vane, thou with thy subtle casuistries... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1911 - 303 pages
...musketeers in and ordered the chamber to be cleared. As the members passed out he cried to them: " It is you that have forced me to this, for I have sought...night and day that He would rather slay me than put me on the doing of this work." The expulsion of the Kump was followed by the dissolution of the council... | |
 | Maude Barrows Dutton, Maude Barrows Dutton Lynch - 1911 - 256 pages
...sadness. " It is you, you" he sighed, " that forced this upon me. I Cromwell ends the Long Parliament. have sought the Lord night and day. that He would rather slay me than put upon me the doing of this work." With a heavy heart Cromwell looked over the land. The king, the lords,... | |
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It's you that have forced me to this, for I have -sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work. 
