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" ... that if the Remonstrance had been rejected he would have sold all he had the next morning, and never have seen England / more ; and he knew there were many other honest men of the same resolution. "
Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Oliver Cromwell. By John Forster - Page 84
1838
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 7, Part 1

John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 882 pages
...its success, may be inferred from his saying to Lord Falkland, that if it had not passed, ' he would have sold all he had the next morning, and never have seen England more ;' and ' I know/ be continued, ' many honest men of the same principle.** Affairs were now advancing to a...
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A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Huntingdon ...

Edward Wedlake Brayley - Huntingdonshire (England) - 1808 - 290 pages
...its success, may be inferred from his saying to Lord Falkland, that if it had not passed, ' he would have sold all he had the next morning, and never have seen England more ;' and ' I know,' he continued, ' many honest men of the same principle.'* Affairs were now advancing to a...
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of ..., Volume 3

William Harris - 1814 - 560 pages
...whispered him in the ear, with some asseveration, that if the remonstrance had been rejected, he would have sold all he had the next morning, and never have...many other honest men of the same resolution. So near was the poor kingdom at that time to its deliverance *." This reflection is added by his lordship on...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...word another time, and whispered him in the ear, that if the Remonstrance had been rejected, he would have sold all he had the next morning, and never have...other honest men of the same resolution. So near, says Clarendon, was the poor kingdom at that time to its deliverance. That memorable Remonstrance,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 612 pages
...word another time, and whispered him in tlie ear, that if the Remonstrance had been rejected, he would have sold all he had the next morning, and never have...other honest men of the same resolution. So near, says Clarendon, was the poor kingdom at that time to its deliverance. That memorable Remonstrance,...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 15; Volume 33

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 614 pages
...Cromwell is reported to have told Lord Falkland, that ' had the Reiuuti' strance been rejected, he would have sold all he had the next ' morning, and never...have seen England more, and he knew * there were many honest men of the same rcsohuion.* ТЫ» anecdote goes some way towards proving two things of no small...
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Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and of His Sons ..., Volume 1

Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1821 - 518 pages
...whispered him in the ear, with some asseveration, " That if the Remonstrance had been rejected, he would have sold all he had the ' next morning, and never have seen England more ; and that he knew there were many honest men of the same resolution." • Mr. Denzil Holles (at the Restoration...
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Oliver Cromwell and His Times

Thomas Cromwell - Great Britain - 1822 - 622 pages
...Clarendon even asserts that he whispered Lord Falkland in the ear, that if it had not passed, ' he would have sold all he had the next morning, and never have seen England more :' and ' he knew,' it is said he continued, ' there were many other honest men of the same resolution.' ' So near,' adds...
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Oliver Cromwell and His Times

Thomas Cromwell - Great Britain - 1822 - 616 pages
...had the next morning, and never have seen England more :' and ' he knew,' it is said he continued, 'there were many other honest men of the same resolution.' ' So near,' adds the noble historian, ' was the poor kingdom at that time to its deliverance !' It is observable, that...
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A History of the British Empire: From the Accession of Charles I ..., Volume 3

George Brodie - Great Britain - 1822 - 652 pages
...That, had it not been carried, he would have instantly sold all he had, and gone to America, and that he knew there were many other honest men of the same resolution," — is a sufficient proof*. The remonstrance was voted on the 22d of No-King'i vember, and Charles...
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