 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1848 - 334 pages
...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...woodside, and have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this. But undertaking it by the advice and petition of you, I did look... | |
 | Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - 212 pages
...last Parliament : " 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." Why, then, did he... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle - 1850 - 544 pages
...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 — [ Yes, your Highness ; it had been infinitely quieter, healthier,... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1856 - 448 pages
...remarkable words : " 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 been glad to have lived under my wood-side, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertook such a government as this." He closed with the... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1856 - 478 pages
...deep for insincerity ; ' 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 been glad to have lived under my wood-side, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than have undertook such a government as this.' And many an ambitions... | |
 | Rapin de Thoyras (M., Paul) - 1760 - 690 pages
..." it good unto me : I can fay in the prefence of God, " in comparifon of whom we are but like poor creeping " ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived " under my wood fide, to have kept a flock of flieep, ra" ther than undertook fuch a government as this is ; but... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - 1859 - 640 pages
...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 — [Yes, your Highness; it had been infinitely quieter, healthier, freer.... | |
 | 1861 - 606 pages
...man or woman living on English ground. I can say, in the presence of God, in comparison with whom wo are like creeping ants upon the earth, I would have...old, free, healthy, quiet days at Huntingdon, and St. Ivés, and Ely, and Ramsey — days, never, never to be known again, until the deeper quiet of eternity... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1861 - 536 pages
...should make it good unto me. I can say in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but 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." A magnanimous pathos,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1864 - 506 pages
...make it good unto me ! I can say in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are hut 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 — [Yes, your Highness; it had been infinitely quieter, healthier, freer.... | |
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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. 
