 | charles dickens - 1874 - 640 pages
...Commons, with which I shall conclude. ' Honest men served you faithfully in this action ; Sir, they arc trusty ; I beseech you in the name of God, not to discourage them ; (which they have not done, blessed be God, and I hope never will.) He proceeds, and wishcth, this... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 682 pages
...is an honest and a thriving way ; and yet as much for bravery may be given to him in this action as to a man. Honest men served you faithfully in this action. Sir, they are all trusty, and I beseech you in the name of God not to discourage them. I wish this action may beget... | |
 | James Bowling Mozley - History - 1878 - 512 pages
...The details of the engagement are given in a dry, matter-of-fact way, and then the note is struck : " Honest men served you faithfully in this action. Sir,...beseech you in the name of God not to discourage them." " It may be thought," he says, after the storming of Bristol, " it may be thought that some praises... | |
 | John Richard Green - History - 1879 - 480 pages
...faithfully in this action," Cromwell wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons from the field. " Sir, they are trusty : I beseech you in the name of God not to discourage them. He that venturer, his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1256 pages
...the battle and the pursuit, to call attention to these men — the flower of the new-modelled army. " Honest men served you faithfully in this action. Sir,...it. He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience," and you for the liberty he fights... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1879 - 578 pages
...an honest and a thriving way ; and yet aa much for bravery may be given to him, in this action, aa to a man. Honest men served you faithfully in this action. Sir, they are truaty : I beseech you, in the name of Ood, not to discourage them. I wish this action may beget thankfulness... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - Great Britain - 1882 - 446 pages
...with the often-quoted words which follow, written, though honestly, not without a politic meaning : " Honest men served you faithfully in this action. Sir,...it. He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience, and you for the liberty he fights for."... | |
 | Maryland Historical Society - Maryland - 1883 - 232 pages
...faithfully to serve it, that satisfies." From the field of Naseby he wrote to the Speaker of the Commons : " Honest men served you faithfully in this action. Sir,...beseech you in the name of God not to discourage them. He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God, for the liberty of his... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1883 - 280 pages
...69. we give A facsimile on page 46) announcing the victory is ;n follows (spelling modernised):— " I wish this action may beget thankfulness and humility...that are concerned In it. He that ventures his life Tor the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience, and yo i for... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...honest and a thriving way : — and yet as much for bravery may be given to him, in this action, as to a man. Honest men served you faithfully in this...it. He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience, and you for the liberty he fights for.... | |
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Honest men served you faithfully in this action. Sir, they are trusty; I beseech you, in the name of God, not to discourage them. I wish this action may beget thankfulness and humility in all that are concerned in it. He that ventures his life for the... 
