 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1891 - 344 pages
...Speaker, where they were. " May it please your Majesty," answered Lenthall, kneeling before him, " I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, but as this House is pleased to direct me." Charles eagerly looked round for his enemies. " The birds are... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1892 - 344 pages
...Speaker, where they were. " May it please your Majesty," answered Lenthall, kneeling before him, " I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, but as this House is pleased to direct me." Charles eagerly looked round for his enemies. " The birds are... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1892 - 1108 pages
...Speaker, where they were. " May it please your Majesty," answered Lenthall, kneeling before him, " 1 have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, but as this House is pleased to direct me." Charles eagerly looked round for his enemies. " The birds are... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1893 - 470 pages
...members asked the speaker if he saw any of them present. Lenthall fell on his knees and replied, ' May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to...speak in this place but as the house is pleased to Lenthail direct me whose servant I am here ; and humbly beg your Majesty's pardon that I cannot give... | |
 | Samuel Harden Church - 1894 - 564 pages
...The Speaker, who was deeply affected, made an ingenious answer. Falling upon his knees, he said : " May it please Your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in this place, but as this House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here ; and I humbly beg Your Majesty's pardon... | |
 | Reginald Robinson Sharpe - London (England) - 1894 - 674 pages
...reply was singularly apt. " May it please your majesty," said he, falling on his knee before Charles, " I have " neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this " place but as this House is pleased to direct me, " whose servant I am here." Casting one more glance round the House,... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1895 - 1134 pages
...Speaker, where they were. " May it please your Majesty," answered Lenthall, kneeling before him, " I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, but as this House is pleased to direct me." Charles eagerly looked round for his enemies. " The birds are... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - Great Britain - 1900 - 526 pages
...falling on his Knee, thus Answered. William " May it phase your Majesty, I Have neither Eyes to Lenthaii, see, nor Tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is reajTsetlie'0 pleased to direct me, whose Servant I am here, and humbly position of a beg your Majesties... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 384 pages
...arrest. Speaker Lenthall answered in ready words, revealing the function of the presiding officer: "May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor i D'Ewes's Journals, p. 683. a Lex Parliamentaria Americana, (2d edit.,) § 294. • Ibid., § 300.... | |
 | Henry Pitt Warren - England - 1901 - 508 pages
...Speaker, and asked whether the five members were present. The Speaker fell on his knees, and replied, " May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, except as the House is pleased to direct me." " Well, well," Charles cried angrily, " 'tis no matter... | |
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I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in this place but as this House is pleased to direct me... 
