 I have eaten his bread, and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him; and choose rather to lose my life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things which are against my conscience to preserve...  The Cavaliers & Roundheads of Barbados, 1650-1652 - Page 73by Nicholas Darnell Davis - 1883 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1760 - 536 pages
...fure I mall do) to' " preferve and defend thofe Things, which are againft " my Confcience to preferve and defend. For I will deal " freely with you, I have no Reverence for the Bifhops, " for whom this Quarrel fubfifts." It was not a Time to difpute ; and his Affection to the... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1761 - 302 pages
...I fhall do) - " to preferve and defend thofe Things, which are " againft my Confcience to preferve and defend. " For I will deal freely with you, I have no Re" verence for the Bifhops, for whom this Quarrel " fubfifts." It was not a Time to dilpute ; and... | |
 | Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1761 - 286 pages
...I 4 ' . " to " to prefer ve and defend thofe Things, which are " againft my Confcience to preferve and defend. " For I will deal freely with you, I have no Re" verence for the Bifhops, for whom this Quarrel tf fubfifts." It was not a Time to difpute -, and... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1798 - 326 pages
...fure I ** fhall do) to preferveand defend thofeThings, which * are again ft my Confcience to preferve and defend : * For I will deal freely with you, I have no Re" verence for the Bifhops, for whom this Quarrel * fubfifts." It was not a Time to difpute ; and... | |
 | 1892 - 626 pages
...so base a thing as to forsake him ; and choose rather to lose my Life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things, which are against...for the Bishops, for whom this Quarrel subsists.' (Vol. ii. p. 126.) To differ from his eldest son, with whom he had been on terms of entire confidence,... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1827 - 566 pages
...base a thing as to forsake him ; and " choose rather to lose my life (which I am sure I " shall do) to preserve and defend those things which " are against...defend : " for I will deal freely with you, I have no re" verence for the bishops, for whom this quarrel " subsists.11" It was not a time to dispute ; and... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1827 - 838 pages
...base a thing as to forsake him ; and " choose rather to lose my life (which I am sure I " shall do) to preserve and defend those things which " are against...defend : " for I will deal freely with you, I have no re" verence for the bishops, for whom this quarrel " subsists."" It was not a time to dispute ; and... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1833 - 640 pages
...so base a thing as to forsake him ; and choose rather to lose my life, which I am sure I shall do, to preserve and defend those things which are against...for the bishops, for whom this quarrel subsists." In commiserating the case of this unfortunate gentleman, we cannot omit to reflect, that it could have... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1833 - 638 pages
...life, which I am sure I shall do, to preserve and defend those things which are against my conscience T to preserve and defend : For I will deal freely with...for the bishops, for whom this quarrel subsists." In commiserating the case of this unfortunate gentleman, we cannot omit to reflect, that it could have... | |
 | English essays - 1834 - 772 pages
...choose rather to lose my life, which I am sure I shall do, to preserve and defend those things which arc against my conscience to preserve and defend , for...the Bishops, for whom this quarrel subsists."* The first battle that was fought between the hostile parties, was at Keinton or Edge-hill, (23d.Oct. 1642,)... | |
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