 | 1800 - 458 trang
...and none were prefent but members devoted to the new order of things.. CROMWELL, this ; I have fought the Lord night and day, that he would rather flay me than put me upon this work. — Having commanded the foldiers to clear the Hall, he himfelf went out the laft, andordering the doors to be... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 396 trang
...glutton. " It is you, continued he, to the " members, that have forced me upon this. I have " fought the Lord night and day, that he would rather " flay me than put me upon this work." Then pointing to the mace. "Take away, cried he, that bauble." After which, turning out all the members,... | |
 | James Stanley (7th earl of Derby.) - 1804 - 682 trang
...glutton, " It is you," continued he to the members, " that have forced me upon this. " I have fought the Lord night and day, that he would " rather flay me than put me upon this work." Then pointing to the mace, "Takeaway," cried he, " that " bauble." After which turning out all the... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 trang
...glutton, &c." " It is you (continued he to the members), that have forced me upon this. I have fought the Lord night and day, that he would rather flay me than put me upon this work." Then pointing to the mace, " Take away that bauble," cried he : after which, turning out all the members,... | |
 | Voltaire, Tobias Smollett - 1904 - 342 trang
...to leave the chair; Cromwell then turning to the members, " It is you," added he, " that have forced me upon this. I have prayed to the Lord night and day that he would rather slay me than put me upon this work." Having said this, he turned out all the members one by one, locked... | |
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It is you, continued he, to the " members, that have forced me upon this. I have " fought the Lord night and day, that he would rather " flay me than put me upon this work. 
