 | Great Britain - 1899 - 260 pages
...make it good unto mee. I can say in the presence of Him in comparison of whom we are but like poore creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad...my wood side to have kept a flock of sheep rather then undertook such a place of governement as this is ; but undertaking it by the Advise and Peticion... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Godfrey Locker Lampson - Bibliography - 1900 - 518 pages
...to the House of Commons, 4th February, 1658 : " I can say in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth,...— I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep rather than undertaken such a government as this." Carlyle... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Orators - 1900 - 462 pages
...who made the frame should make it good unto me ! I can say in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep rather than undertake such a government as this. But undertaking... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth - Great Britain - 1900 - 590 pages
...for the cares and vicissitudes of supreme power. " I can say in the presence of God, in comparison of whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertook such a government as... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1901 - 380 pages
...brought into question. " I can say," he continued, " in the presence of God — in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth...wood side to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken such a government as this. But undertaking it by the advice and petition of you,... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1904 - 626 pages
...that made the Frame should make it good unto me ! I can say 4 in the presence of God, in comparison of whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the...— I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep — [ Yes, your Highness ; it had been infinitely quieter,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1909 - 328 pages
...man or woman treading upon English ground. . . . I can say in the presence of God, in comparison with Whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth,...— I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this." The shadow... | |
 | Maude Barrows Dutton - Great Britain - 1911 - 266 pages
...one man, before them and spoke unflinchingly. " I can say in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under any woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this." Then... | |
 | Esse Virginia Hathaway - Politicians - 1912 - 224 pages
...go home. "I can say," he said sorrowfully and earnestly, "in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth,...— I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a Government as this. But undertaking... | |
 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - Great Britain - 1913 - 668 pages
...upon. " I can say in the presence of God," had been the cry of his last speech, " in comparison with Whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth...— I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep — rather than undertake such a government as this. But, undertaking... | |
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I can say in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this. 
