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Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement ..., Volume 2

Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1860 - 634 pages
...would be pleased to use them kindly, you would find as good a feni c to you as any you have yet chosen. Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opimons ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies, I advised you formerly to...
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Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations, Volume 1

Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1861 - 738 pages
...would be pleased to use them kindly, you would find as good a fence to you as any you have yet chosen. Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes...minds from yourself: if you had done it when I advised you to it, I think you would not have had so many stumblingblocks in your way. It may be you judge...
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History of Civilization in England, Volume 1

Henry Thomas Buckle - France - 1857 - 886 pages
...Crateford, recently printed in Carlyle's Cromwell, vol. i. pp. 201, 202, 8vo, 1846. In it Cromwell writes, " Sir, the state, in choosing men to serve it, takes...willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies." See additional proof in Carwithen's Hist, of the Church of England, vol. ii. pp. 245, 249. M No one...
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A Campaigner at Home

Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 pages
...to 'the previous question.' It had left him tolerant indeed, and ready to say, with the Protector, ' Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies ; ' but I do not know that this tolerant habit rested on any ground of principle : it was rather the...
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History of Civilization in England, Volume 1

Henry Thomas Buckle - Great Britain - 1865 - 724 pages
...Cromwell, TO!, i. pp. 201, 202, 8vo, 1846. In it Cromwell writes, "Sir, the etate, in choosing men to serre it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be"...willing faithfully to serve it, —that satisfies." See additional proof in Carwithen's Hist, of the Church of England, vol. ii. pp. 245, 249. *• No...
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Histoire de la civilisation en Angleterre, Volume 2

Henry Thomas Buckle - Great Britain - 1865 - 356 pages
...Cromwell, 1. 1, pag. 202, 203, in-S*, 1846. Cromwell écrit : t Sir, thé slate, in choosing men to sewe it, takes no notice of their opinions; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfles. » Voir une preuve nouvelle dans Carwithen, Hist. of thé Church ofEngland, t. Il, pag....
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Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement ..., Volume 2

Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1868 - 628 pages
...would be pleased to use them kindly, you would find as good a fence to you as any you have yet chosen. Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes...from yourself : if you had done it when I advised you to it> I think you would not have had so many stumbling-blocks in your way. It may be you judge...
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Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement ..., Volume 2

Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1868 - 638 pages
...would be pleased to use them kindly, you would find as good a fence to you as any you have yet chosen. Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their " It Ma-'ch (Cooper, iii., 371 ; details in Neal, ii., 79-89). opinions ; if they.be willing faithfully...
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Collected Works, Volume 14

Thomas Carlyle - 1870 - 390 pages
...would be pleased to use them kindly, you would find as good a fence to you as any you have yet chosen. Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes...minds from yourself: if you had done it when I advised you to it, I think you would not have had so many stumblingblocks in your way. It may be you judge...
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Life of Oliver Cromwell to the death of Charles the first

John Richard Andrews (barrister.) - 1870 - 482 pages
...pleased to use them kindly, you would find them as good a fence to you as any you have yet chosen. ' Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes...minds from yourself. If you had done it when I advised you to it, I think you would not have had so many stumblingblocks in your way. ' It may be you judge...
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