 are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters and such kind of fellows and,' said I, 'their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter...  Oliver Cromwell and His Times - Page 117by Thomas Cromwell - 1822 - 588 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Harris - Great Britain - 1762 - 564 pages
...gentlemens fons, younger ' fons, and pcrfons of quality, do you think that the ' fpirits of fuch bafe and mean fellows will be ever able * to encounter gentlemen, that have honour and cour4 age and refolution in them ? Truly I prefented him * in this manner confciencioufly, and truly... | |
 | William Harris - Great Britain - 1762 - 544 pages
...gentlemens fons, younger ' fons, and perfons of quality, do you think that the ' fpirits of fuch bafe and mean fellows will be ever able * to encounter gentlemen, that have honour and courf age and refolution in them ? Truly I prefented him * in this manner confciencioufly, and truly... | |
 | Thomas Fairfax Baron Fairfax - Great Britain - 1786 - 492 pages
...and perfons of quality : and do you think that the fpirit of fugh bafe and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour, and courage, and resolution in them ? You rnuft get men of a fpirit, and (take it not ill what I fay) of a fpirit that is likely to gp... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 882 pages
...and persons of quality. And do you think that the spirits of such hase and mean fellows, will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour, and courage. and resolution, in them ? You must get men of a spirit, and (take it not ill what 1 say) of a spirit that is likely to go on... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - Huntingdonshire (England) - 1808 - 290 pages
...and persons of quality. And do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows, will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour, and courage, and resolution, in them? You must get men of a spirit, and {take if not ill what l say) of a spirit that is likely to go on... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 542 pages
...and, said I, their troops are gentlemens sons, younger sons, and persons of quality, do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will be...honour and courage and resolution in them ? Truly I presented him in this manner conscienciously, and truly I did tell him, you must get men of a spirit,... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 560 pages
...honour and courage and resolution in them ? Truly I presented him in this manner conscienciously, and truly I did tell him, you must get men of a spirit, and take it not ill what I say, (I know you will not) of a spirit that is likely to go on as far as... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...of good quality. And do you think, that the mean spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour and courage and resolution in them? You must get men of a spirit ; and, take it not ill what I say, of a spirit that is likely to go on... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1819 - 396 pages
...good quality. And do you think that the mean spirits of such hase and low fellows as ours will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them ? You must get men of spirit, and take it not ill that I say, of a spirit that is likely to go as far... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 614 pages
...Cromwell tells us, that he pointed this out to Hampden, and said, ' Do you think that the spirits 4 of such base and mean fellows will be ever able to...have honour, and courage, and resolution in ' them ?' Hampden, he adds, replied, that his notion was a good one but impracticable ; upon which Cromwell... | |
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