 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1907 - 966 pages
...carried the day by a majority of 120. 1 March 25-6, 1881. CHAPTER II AN EPISODE IX TOLERATION (1SSO-1SS3) THE state in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - Great Britain - 1905 - 248 pages
...? ' He is indiscreet.' It may be so, in some things : we have all human infirmities. . . . tl Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their ;\ opi5$BWf7"lf"fliey be willing "Faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies!' I advised you formerly... | |
 | James Mackinnon - Europe - 1908 - 540 pages
...Major-General Crawford (loth March 1644), who had imprisoned one of his subordinates as an Anabaptist, " 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 men... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 1907 - 214 pages
...London on the 27th, and at Bristol 17th January 1657. colonel on account of erroneous doctrine : " Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object... | |
 | R. W. Dale - Congregational churches - 1907 - 808 pages
...Crawford, who, as Cromwell thought, had treated an Anabaptist colonel unjustly. " Sir," wrote Cromwell, " 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... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - Great Britain - 1907 - 216 pages
...London on the 27th, and at Bristol 17th January 1657. colonel on account of erroneous doctrine : " Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object... | |
 | James King Hewison - Covenanters - 1908 - 584 pages
...interest in the private concerns of the soul. 'Sir,' said Cromwell to MajorGeneral Crawford, a Scot, 'the State in choosing men to serve it takes no notice of their opinions, if they be willing to serve it faithfully ; that suffices.' Cromwell had the questions at issue discussed... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - Great Britain - 1908 - 512 pages
...mitigate the struggle. Cromwell himself was capable of taking a largeminded view. ' Sir,' he exclaimed, ' the State in choosing men to serve it takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.' Chillingworth and Hales were two of those... | |
 | Rhode Island. Office of Commissioner of Education - Rhode Island - 1908 - 176 pages
...cashiered a captain because he was thought to be an Anabaptist; whereupon Cromwell wrote to him: "Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinion : if they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies." The intimacy between Williams... | |
 | Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - 1907 - 152 pages
...did not love the Covenant, and claimed a greater freedom in religion. " The State," said Cromwell, " in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions; if they be willing faithfully to serve it,—that satisfies." " Take heed of being sharp against those... | |
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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. 
