 | Robert Southey - 1916 - 464 trang
...can say in the presence of God," said he in one of his speeches, "in comparison of whom we are but poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than have undertook such a government as this is !... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1917 - 408 trang
...not a man living who can say I sought it; no, not a man or woman treading upon English ground. ... I can say in the presence of God, in comparison of...would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than have undertaken such a place of government as this is. But... | |
 | G. R. Stirling Taylor - 1928 - 376 trang
...did draw me to accept the place of Protector. ... I can say in the presence of God, in comparison to whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth...would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep — rather than undertook such a Government as this is." It was the speech... | |
 | Arthur D. Innes - 1914 - 308 trang
...who made the Frame should make it good unto me ! I can say in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, — I would have been glad to have lived upon my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep — rather than undertaken such a Government as this.... | |
 | Ernest Barker - 1967 - 390 trang
...the right of Englishmen.' Firth, Life of Cromwell, p. 483. * This passage merits a fuller quotation. 'I can say in the presence of God, in comparison of whom we are but poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have lived under my woodside....' Quoted in Firth, Life... | |
 | Cicely Veronica Wedgwood - 1939 - 116 trang
...the right of Englishmen.' Firth, Life of Cromwell, p. 483. 19 This passage merits a fuller quotation. 'I can say in the presence of God, in comparison of whom we are but poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have lived under my woodside. . . . ' Quoted in Firth, Life... | |
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I can say in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this. 
