 | William Roper - Christian saints - 1822 - 262 pages
...to do. So shall you show yourself a true faithful servant, and a right wise and worthy counsellor. For if a lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him. Shortly thereupon was there a commission directed to Craumer, then Archbishop of Canterbury, to determine... | |
 | Cresacre More - Christian martyrs - 1828 - 456 pages
...able to do ; so shall you show yourself a true and faithful servant, and a right worthy counsellor ; for if a lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him." But Cromwell never learned this lesson ; for he ever gave that counsel to his prince, which he thought... | |
 | Cresacre More - Christian martyrs - 1828 - 470 pages
...able to do ; so shall you show yourself a true and faithful servant, and a right worthy counsellor ; for if a lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him." But Cromwell never learned this lesson ; for he ever gave that counsel to his prince, which he thought... | |
 | Henry Mead - Literary curiosa - 1846 - 254 pages
...able to do ; so shall you shew yourself a true and faithful servant, and a right worthy counsellor ; for if a lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him, "But," adds Mr. More, " Cromwell never learned this lesson ; for he ever gave that counsel to the prince... | |
 | 1853 - 740 pages
...he con do ; so shall you shew yourself a true and faithful servant, and a right worthy counsellor. For if a lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.' " P. 53. children, and familie, which was so well ordered, that rather it might seem a religious monasterio... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1857 - 572 pages
...Cromwell on other occasions showed a grateful 1 Thorns'* Stow, 67. and a feeling heart, remembering in hia prosperity the services he had received when he was...principal secretary to the king. In the next year nominated visitor-general of the monasteries, under 1 R\mer, xiv. -156. i Singer's Roper, 55. ' Pal.... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1870 - 816 pages
...follow my poor advice, you shall, in your council-giving to his grace, ever tell him what he might to do, but never what he is able to do. ... For if...own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.' (Singer's Roper, 65.) On October 8, 1634, he was made master of the Rolls, having previously been appointed... | |
 | Richard Watson Dixon - England - 1878 - 564 pages
...able to do : so shall you show yourself a true and faithful servant, and a right worthy counsellor : for if a lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.' — More's Life of More, p. 260. * Strype, EM ip 270. ' I have neither shirt nor coat, nor yet other... | |
 | John Howard Marsden - 1878 - 308 pages
...him ' what he can do. So shall you be a right worthy ' counsellor and a true and faithful servant. For if a ' lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man ' to rule him.' Allusion is made in this gratulatory address to Henry's marriage, which is rendered the more interesting... | |
 | Richard Watson Dixon - 1884 - 560 pages
...able to do : so shall you show yourself a true and faithful servant, and a right worthy counsellor : for if a lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him." — More's Life of Mote, p. 260. * Strype, EM ip 270. " I have neither shirt nor coat, nor yet other... | |
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... into the service of a most noble, wise, and liberal prince. If you will follow my poor advice, you shall, in your... 
