| Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...Speaker Lenthal, requiring to be told ; but Lenthal, kneeling, humbly desired to be excused, saying : " I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here ; and I humbly beg your Majesty's pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your Majesty... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1793 - 268 pages
...any of them were in the house ? the speaker falling on his knee, prudently replied : " I have, sir, neither " eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the " house i1 pleased to direct me, whose servant I am : and " I humbly ask pardon, that I cannot give any other... | |
| Edward Wedlake Brayley - Huntingdonshire (England) - 1808 - 290 pages
...whether he saw any of them? and where they were?" The Speaker, " thus surprised," says Whitelocke, yet with much prudence falling on his knee, answered...am here; and humbly beg your Majestie's pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this, to what your Majesty is pleased to demand of me." — The... | |
| Thomas Bayly Howell - Trials - 1809 - 768 pages
...the Speaker, falling on Ins knee, thu» answered : ' May it please your majesty ; I have nei' ther eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this ' place, but...me, whose servant I am here; and humbly ' beg your majesty's pardon, that I cannot give ' any other answer than this to what your ma' jesty is pleased... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1810 - 778 pages
...and where they were?' The Speaker, with admirable presence of mind, falling on his knee, answered, " May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to...to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased of their opponents, originated in these Tumults. It was then the custom of the London apprentices to... | |
| Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - London (England) - 1810 - 762 pages
...and where they wereT The Speaker, with admirable presence of mind, falling on his knee, answered, " May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as tbe House is pleased of their opponents, originated in these Tumults. It was then the custom of the... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 504 pages
...prudently replied : " I have, sir, ^_ " neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in this place, ,6i2 " but as the house is pleased to direct me, whose servant " I am. And I humbly ask pardon, that I cannot give " any other answer to what your majesty is pleased to "... | |
| David Hume - 1812 - 604 pages
...these persons were in the house? The speaker, falling on his knee, prudently replied : " I have, Sir, neither eyes to see, nor '* tongue to speak, in this...house is " pleased to direct me, whose servant I am. And «* I humbly ask pardon, that I cannot give any other *' answer to what Your Majesty is pleased... | |
| William Harris - 1814 - 510 pages
...of them ? and where they were ?' To which the speaker, falling oa his knee, thus answered : .. . ' May it please your majesty, * I have neither eyes...direct me, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg yourraato demand them of the house. This greatly alarmed both houses of parliament, and made them cast... | |
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