 | Charles Wesley Mann - Amusements - 1896 - 364 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 these opinions : if they be willing faithfully to serve it — that satisfies. I advised you formerly... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1897 - 634 pages
...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 stumbling-blocks in your way. It may be you judge... | |
 | Alfred Kingston - East Anglia - 1897 - 436 pages
...Cambridge, defending Lieutenant-Colonel Packer against complaints of his Major-General Crawford. " Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies." In 1 " Querela Cantabrigiensis. " 1 "One of Cromwell's trumpeters blew so hard that he put old Duppa... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 454 pages
...would be pleased to use them kindly, you would Jind as good a fence to you as any you have yet chosen. Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes...if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisJies. I advised you formerly 'to tear with men of different minds from yourself: if you had done... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 462 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...their opinions; if they be willing faithfully to serve it,—that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with men of different minds from yourself: if... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - Great Britain - 1898 - 248 pages
...the public ? ' He is indiscreet.' It may be so, in some things : we have all human infirmities. . . . 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 stumblingblocks in your way. . . . Take heed of being... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - England - 1898 - 518 pages
...Anabaptist." Are you sure of that ? Admit he be, shall that render him incapable to serve the public ? . . . Sir. the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes...to bear with men of different minds from yourself. ... It may be you judge otherwise, but I tell you my mind. I desire you would receive this man [lieutenant-colonel... | |
 | Thomas Stanford Baldock - Great Britain - 1899 - 584 pages
...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 stumbling-blocks in your way. It may be you judge... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh - 1899 - 256 pages
...delivers a sharp reprimand, because Crawford has discountenanced an "anabaptist" Lieutenant-Colonel: "Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes...faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. I advised yon tonner'.y to bear with men of different minds from yourself. Take heed of being too sharp, or too... | |
 | Spenser Wilkinson - Generals - 1899 - 788 pages
...remonstrate with a Presbyterian colonel, who refused to employ a Baptist as officer, and to tell him that "the State in choosing men to serve it takes no notice of their opinions." To Cromwell Presbyterianism, like Episcopalianism, was inelastic and cramped. The Independents alone... | |
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Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with men of different minds from yourself : if you had done it when I advised... 
