 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1873 - 812 pages
...whether any of 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,...whose servant I am; and I humbly ask pardon that I can not give any other answer to what your majesty is pleased to demand of me." The king then said... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - History - 1872 - 462 pages
...the speaker Lent.hal, TO point them out. " Sir," answered the speaker Tailing o<v his knees, " I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me ivhofe servant I am ; and I humbly ask pardon that I cannot five any otlie/ answer to what your majesty... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Gardiner - Great Britain - 1874 - 404 pages
...they were. Upon this, the Speaker fell on his knees, and said, '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 your Majesty's pardon, that I cannot give any other answer than this, to what... | |
 | Henry Wikoff - Civilization - 1874 - 434 pages
...asked the Speaker if the accused were present. Falling on his knees, the Speaker replied, " 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 your Majesty's pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this." The House... | |
 | Christopher Hill - History - 1982 - 308 pages
...1642, when Charles I came to arrest five members of Parliament, Speaker Lenthall said to him, 'I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place,...House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am.' So the revolution was completed by which the Speaker ceased to be the King's servant and became the... | |
 | David M. Olson - Comparative government - 1994 - 206 pages
...whether several members, whom he was going to arrest, were present: "May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House doth direct me, whose servant I am." Bailey 1971, 62 The very name, "Speaker," illustrates the tortured... | |
 | Robert Unwin - Great Britain - 1996 - 124 pages
...shall send them unto me as soon as they return ... The Speaker: 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. 1 Look at Source A. The Churchman shown in the pulpit is named in the cartoon. Who is he? What is he... | |
 | Andy Williams - Great Britain - 1998 - 260 pages
...agent of the monarch. This link was not broken until 1642 when Speaker Lenthall told Charles I: 'I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place...House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here.' Since the mid-nineteenth century the Speaker has been seen as a neutral figure. Elected by MPs,... | |
 | Mike Corbishley - Great Britain - 1998 - 420 pages
...were. The Speaker, William Lenthall, knelt respectlully and replied. May it please Your Mafesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, but as this House is pleased to direct me, whose servant 1 am heiv. The king realized he had been outwitted.... | |
 | Antonia Fraser - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 796 pages
...gave the momentous reply, a mixture of reverence and defiance: "May it pleasure 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 . . ,"23 Thus the King departed from the House of Commons and then from London itself, never to... | |
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