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" ... call together parliaments with a word of his pen, and scatter them again with the breath of his mouth ; to be humbly and daily petitioned... "
The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution ... - Page 288
by David Hume - 1807
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The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essays

British prose literature - 1821 - 424 pages
...and daily petitioned that he would please to be hired, at the rate of two millions a year, to be the master of those who had hired him before to be their servant ; to have the estates and lives of three kingdoms as much at his disposal, as was the little inheritance...
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Table-talk: Or Original Essays

William Hazlitt - Authors and publishers - 1821 - 420 pages
...and daily petitioned that he would please to be hired, at the rate of two millions a year, to be the master of those who had hired him before to be their servant; to have the estates and lives of three kingdoms as much at his disposal, as was the little inheritance...
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Hudibras: A Poem, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - Great Britain - 1822 - 542 pages
...officers ? be humbly and daily petitioned, that he would be pleased, at the rate of a million a-year, to be hired as master of those who had hired him before...servant ? have the estates and lives of three nations as much at his disposal as was once the little inheritance of his father, and be as noble and liberal...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 246 pages
...and daily petitioned" ^hat he yould please to be hired, at the fcateof two millions a year, to be the master of those who had hired him before to be their servant; to Eavethe estates and lives of three kingdoms as much at his disposal, as was the little inheritance...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 268 pages
...and daily petitioned that he would please to be hired, at the rate of two millions a year, to be the master of those who had hired him before to be their servant; to have the estates and lives of three kingdoms as much at his disposal, as was the little inheritance...
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Prose works

Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pages
...and daily petitioned that he would please to be hired, at the rate of two millions a year, to be the master of those who had hired him before to be their servant ; to have the estates and lives of three kingdoms as much at his disposal, as was the little inheritance...
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Prose Works of Abraham Cowley ; Including His Essays in Prose and Verse

Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pages
...and daily petitioned that he would please to be hired, at the rate of two millions a year, to be the master of those who had hired him before to be their servant; to have the estates and lives of three kingdoms as much at his disposal, as was the little inheritance...
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Prose Works of Abraham Cowley ; Including His Essays in Prose and Verse

Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 296 pages
...and daily petitioned that he would please to be hired, at the rate of two millions a year, to be the master of those who had hired him before to be their servant; to have the estates and lives of three kingdoms as much at his disposal, as was the little inheritance...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 9

David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 434 pages
...and discontented nation, by means of a mutinous army? Command a mutinous army by means of seditious and factious officers? Be humbly and daily petitioned,...servant? Have the estates and lives of three nations as much at his disposal as was once the little inheritance of his father, and be as noble and liberal...
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The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from ...

Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...discontented nation, by means of a mutinous army ? Command a mutinous army, by means of factious and seditious officers ? Be humbly and daily petitioned, that he...those, who had hired him before, to be their servant 1 Have the estates and lives of three nations as much at his disposal, as was once the little inheritance...
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