 | Law - 1901 - 456 pages
...great principle of religious toleration laid down, very simply, by Oliver Cromwell, when he wrote : " Sir, — The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. Take heed of being sharp or too easily sharpened by others against those to whom you can object little... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1901 - 380 pages
...Admit he be," wrote Cromwell in reply, "shall that render him incapable to serve the public ? . . . Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it takes no...willing faithfully to serve it — that satisfies. Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object little... | |
 | Manasseh ben Israel - Jews - 1901 - 300 pages
...essentially governed by religious policy. He desired to make England 1 Writing to Crawford in 1643, he says : "The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no...willing faithfully to serve it— that satisfies. . . . Dear with men of different minds from yourself." Carlyle, "Cromwell's Letters and Speeches,"... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1901 - 380 pages
...Admit he be," wrote Cromwell in reply, : " shall that render him incapable to serve the public ? . . . Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it takes no...their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it—that satisfies. Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 600 pages
...bigot. His rule on this subject is therefore the more worthy of record : "Sir, the State, in choosingmen to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom yon can object... | |
 | Henry Skipton - English language - 1901 - 256 pages
...rational grounds. Hence it will lose its Vital effect on them and become a mere formula. Quotations — " The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions." " Let us think it possible that we may be mistaken." — Oliver Cromwell. "And yet perhaps in the right,... | |
 | 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 - 1901 - 662 pages
...systems,' and would have imposed them on others. Cromwell took broader ground. ' The State,' he said, ' in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions.' Milton, in his ' Areopagitica,' raised into a philosophical dogma what to Cromwell was a rule of practical... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1901 - 664 pages
...systems,' and would have imposed them on others. Cromwell took broader ground. ' The State,' he said, ' in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions.' Milton, in his ' Areopagitica,' raised into a philosophical dogma what to Cromwell was a rule of practical... | |
 | Irving Berdine Richman - Rhode Island - 1902 - 298 pages
...Lawrence Crawford, who had cashiered one of his captains because he was thought to be an Anabaptist : " Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it takes no...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object... | |
 | Irving Berdine Richman - Rhode Island - 1902 - 302 pages
...Lawrence Crawford, who had cashiered one of his captains because he was thought to be an Anabaptist: " Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it takes no...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object... | |
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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... 
