 | 1901 - 604 pages
...Anabaptist. ' But shall that,' said Cromwell, ' render him incapable to serve the public ? . . . Sir, the ' State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their ' opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, that ' satisfies.' The truth is that Cromwell was a practical... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1850 - 444 pages
...pleased to use them kindly, you would find as good a fence to you as any you have yet chosen. Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - 1851 - 382 pages
...Are you sure of that ? Admit he be, shall that render bim incapable to serve the public?"* *" Sir, the state, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it — that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Civilization - 1857 - 882 pages
...recently printed in Carlyle's Cromwell, vol. i. pp. 201, 202, 8vo, 1846. In it Cromwell writes, " Sir, the state, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies." See additional proof in Carwitheris... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 pages
...had written to Crawford on one occasion, when an Anabaptist colonel had been put under disgrace, " the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no " notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to " serve it, that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1859 - 640 pages
...pleased to use them kindly, you would find as good a fence to you as any you have yet chosen. Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their * 11 March (Cooper, iii., 371 ; details in Neal, ii., 79-89). opimons ; if they be willing faithfully... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1860 - 634 pages
...pleased to use them kindly, you would find as good a feni c to you as any you have yet chosen. Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opimons ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies, I advised you formerly to... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1861 - 738 pages
...pleased to use them kindly, you would find as good a fence to you as any you have yet chosen. Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - France - 1857 - 886 pages
...recently printed in Carlyle's Cromwell, vol. i. pp. 201, 202, 8vo, 1846. In it Cromwell writes, " Sir, the state, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies." See additional proof in Carwithen's... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 pages
...'the previous question.' It had left him tolerant indeed, and ready to say, with the Protector, ' Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions : if they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies ; ' but I do not know that this tolerant... | |
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Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies. 
