 | 1751 - 526 pages
...I defire to live. As for me, I fee nofuch great Reafon (according as 1 have led my Life) whyljhould either be fond to live, or fear to die. I have had...Experience of this World ; I have known what it is to beet SulyefJ, a,nd Insw know what it is to be a Sovereign. T Queen Elizabeth. Good Neighbours I have... | |
 | Parliamentary - 1763 - 516 pages
...defire to live. As for me, I fee no fuch great Reafon (according as I have led my Life) why I jhould either be fond to live, or fear to die. I have had...Experience, of this World ; I have known what it is to be a, and I now know what it is to be a Sovereign* T 3 Got4 Queen Elizabeth. Qaod Neighbours I have bad,... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - Scotland - 1915 - 812 pages
...flourishing estate, I would gladly die : for your sakes I desire to live. I see no cause why I should wish to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world as subject and as sovereign. I have found treason in trust, and seen great benefits ill requited. An... | |
 | Henry Holt - Periodicals - 1918 - 488 pages
...(Philosophy of the man of action.) — As for me, I see no such great reason why I should either be proud to live, or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world. 1 have known what it is to be a subject, and I now know what it is to be a sovereign. Good neighbors... | |
 | John Thomas Morris Johnston - Biography - 1924 - 344 pages
...is for my people's sake that I do desire to live. As for me, I see no such great reason why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience in this world. If England, by my death, might obtain a more flourishing condition and a better sovereign,... | |
 | Naomi J. Miller - History - 1996 - 308 pages
...1, "Reply to the Petition Urging Execution of Mary Queen of Scots" (1586), in Public Speaking, 89: "I have known what it is to be a subject, and I now know what it is to be a sovereign." 66. Amussen, "Gender, Family and Social Order," 208-9, and An Ordered Society, 117. 67. For a contrasting... | |
 | Barbara Kiefer Lewalski - History - 2000 - 388 pages
...a king of England too"—but also that she could speak the language of both subject and sovereign: "I have known what it is to be a subject, and I now know what it is to be a sovereign." 6 Instead of replacing subjection with sovereignty, Elizabeth learned as a female monarch to move in... | |
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I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject, and what to be a sovereign. 