 Many more words I had with him; but people coming in, I drew a little back. As I was turning, he catched me by the hand, and with tears in his eyes said, 'Come again to my house; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer...  HISTORY OF THE COLONIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES - Page 21by GEORGE BANCROFT - 1854Full view - About this book
 | William Tallack - Baptists - 1868 - 246 pages
...eyes, exclaimed to him after his first interview, " Come again, come again to my house ; for if then and I were but an hour of a day together we should be nearer one to the other." However, Fox was no courtier, and did not seek for further intimacy with the Protector or his chief... | |
 | John Cunningham - 1868 - 376 pages
...kingdoms took him warmly by the hand, and with tears in his eyes, said, " Come again to my house, for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one another." As he was retiring, a servant followed him, and invited him to remain and dine with the Protector's... | |
 | 1868 - 848 pages
...with George Fox, he said to the leather-clad apostle, " Come again to my house ; for, if thou aud 1 were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other." After about the year 1720, when their persecution had in great measure ceased, the society seemed to... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 168 pages
...turning, he catched me by the hand, and with tears in his eyes said, ' Come again to my house, for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other ; adding, that he wished me no morf ill than he did to his own soul. I told him, if he did, he wronged... | |
 | Samuel Tomkins (of Trysull.) - 1873 - 274 pages
...at liberty and might go whither he would. He also told him to come again to his house, remarking, ' if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to another." In October, 1656, the Protector gave an order for the release of Friends at Colchester gaol.... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 pages
...turning, he catched me by the hand, and with tears in his eyes said, ' Come again to my house, for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should 'be nearer one to the other ; adding, that he wished me no more ill than he did to his own soul. I told him, if he did, he wronged... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 584 pages
...from the submission, not from the will of the people ; it came by the sword, not from the nation, nor from established national usages. Cromwell saw the...Presently he appealed to the moneyed men and the lawyers : " he alone could save them from the levellers, men more ready to destroy than to reform." Did the... | |
 | Charles Evans - Quakers - 1876 - 702 pages
...turning, he catched me by the hand, and with tears in his eyes, said, ' Come again to my house ; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other ; ' adding, ' That he wished me no more ill than he did to his own soul.' I told him, ' If he did,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1881 - 454 pages
...turning he catched me by the hand, and with tears in his eyes said : ' Come again to my house, for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other.' " reported to have replied : " Now I see there is a people risen whom I cannot win either with gifts,... | |
 | George Fox - Quakers - 189? - 358 pages
...was turning he catched me by the hand, and with tears in his eyes said, Come again to my house; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together we should be nearer one to the other ; adding, that he wished me no more ill than he did to his own soul. I told him if he did, he wronged... | |
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