 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 846 pages
...bearded a lion in his den. " Sir," said the ready and prudent speaker, " I have neither eyes to Ree, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the house is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am. And I humbly ask your pardon that I cannot give any other answer to what your majesty is pleased to... | |
 | John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...those persons were in the house, and where they were. The speaker, falling on his knees, replied, " I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...house is 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... | |
 | David Hume - 1864 - 602 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 to demand... | |
 | Arthur Bailey Thompson - Great Britain - 1865 - 748 pages
...wheresover I find them. Mr. Speaker, where are they ?" The Speaker fell on his knees and exclaimed : " May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to...House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am ; and I humbly beg your Majesty's pardon, that I cannot now give any other answer than this to what... | |
 | George Brodie - 1866 - 560 pages
...knees, answered, with admirable presence of mind on such an unprecedented and critical occasion, ' May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to...tongue to speak, in this place, but as the House, whose servant I am, is pleased to direct me; and I humbly beg your majesty's pardon, that I cannot... | |
 | George Brodie - Constitutional history - 1866 - 548 pages
...knees, answered, with admirable presence of mind on such an unprecedented and critical occasion, ' May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to...tongue to speak, in this place, but as the House, whose servant I am, is pleased to direct me; and I humbly beg your majesty's pardon, that I cannot... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...spoken the words which have shed a sort of historical glory round a life not otherwise illustrious : "I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here ; and I humbly beg your majesty's раг-doii that I cannot give any other answer than this to... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 444 pages
...arrest. Speaker Lenthall replied in ready words, which reveal the function of the presiding officer : " May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to...House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here." (Hatsell, vol. 2, p. 242.) This reply was as good in law as in patriotism. Different words were... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 436 pages
...propositions to the assembly, from participating in its deliberations, and from voting. (1bid., section 300.) Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to...House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here." (Hatsell, vol. 2, p. 242.) This reply was as good in law as in patriotism. Different words were... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1868 - 438 pages
...it will here be most properly appended to nn account which firs gives to it all its significance), 'I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and I humbly beg your Majesty's pardon that I can not give any other answer than this to what... | |
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