 | Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...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 this place...House is 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... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1793 - 268 pages
...below, whether 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
...prudence falling on his knee, answered the King to this purpose : ' May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in this...House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg your Majestie's pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this, to what... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 882 pages
...prudence falling on his knee, answered the King to this purpose: ' May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in this...House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg your Majestie's pardon that 1 cannot give any other answer than this, to what... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - Trials - 1809 - 766 pages
...the Speaker, falling on Ins knee, thuğ answered : ' May it please your majesty ; I have nei' ther eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this ' place, but...house is pleased to direct ' me, whose servant I am here; and humbly ' beg your majesty's pardon, that I cannot give ' any other answer than this to what... | |
 | 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 - 772 pages
...with admirable presence of mind, falling on his knee, auswered, " May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased • of their opponents, eriginated in these Tumuli-. It was then the custom of the London apprentices... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 510 pages
...which the speaker, falling oa his knee, thus answered : .. . ' May it please your majesty, * I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place,...house is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg yourraato demand them of the house. This greatly alarmed both houses of parliament,... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 518 pages
...P To which the speaker, falling on his knee, thus answered : ' May it please your majesty, ' I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the house is pleased to direct me, \vhosescrvant I am here; and humbly beg your ma* to demand them of the house. This greatly alarmed... | |
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May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me... 
