 | English literature - 1856 - 668 pages
...accused members were present. Lenthal, thus suddenly interrogated, answered with singular felicity, ' I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...place, but as the House is pleased to direct me.' Having again looked round, the King said that he perceived the birds had flown, that he only intended... | |
 | English literature - 1856 - 590 pages
...accused members were present. Lenthal, thus suddenly interrogated, answered with singular felicity, ' I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...place, but as the House is pleased to direct me.' Having again looked round, the King said that he perceived the birds had flown, that he only intended... | |
 | English literature - 1856 - 594 pages
...accused members were present. Lenthal, thus suddenly interrogated, answered with singular felicity, ' I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...place, but as the House is pleased to direct me.' Having again looked round, the King said that he perceived the birds had flown, that he only intended... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1856 - 448 pages
...respectfully bending his knee, firmly replied : " I have, sir, neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak jn this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me, 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... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1857 - 552 pages
...whether he saw any of them ? and where they were ? " the speaker, falling on his knees, replied, " May it please your majesty ; I have neither eyes to...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 Majesty is pleased to demand... | |
 | Edward Foss - Courts - 1857 - 540 pages
...house ? whether he saw any of them? and where they were?" the speaker, falling on his knees, replied, " May it please your majesty ; I have neither eyes to...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 Majesty is pleased to demand... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1858 - 604 pages
...house. The speaker, falling on his knee, prudently replied, " I have, sir, neither eyes to see noi tongue to speak in this place, 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 demand... | |
 | David Rowland - Constitutional history - 1859 - 606 pages
...those persons were in the house, and where theywere. The Speaker, falling on his knees, replied, " I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...to direct me, whose servant I am here ; and humbly heg your majesty's pardon, that I cannot give any other answer than this, to what your majesty is pleased... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1859 - 206 pages
...the language addressed by Speaker Lenthall to Charles I., on the memorable 4th January, 1641 : — " I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in...House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am." (Bushworth, vol. iv. p. 478.) It is a curious thing that no two of the many compiled authorities on... | |
 | John Singleton Copley - 1859 - 28 pages
...p. 868. demanded " if any of the members in question were present Î '" " I havo, sir, neither oyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in this place, but as...pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here ; and I humbly ask pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this, to what your majesty is pleased... | |
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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... 
