 Your troops, said I, 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...  English Puritanism and Its Leaders: Cromwell, Milton, Baxter, Bunyan - Page 94by John Tulloch - 1861 - 488 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... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - Huntingdonshire (England) - 1808 - 290 pages
...kind of fellows; — and their troops are gentlemen*! sons, younger sons, 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 560 pages
...decayed serving-men and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and, said I, their troops are gentlemens sons, younger sons, and persons of quality, do you...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...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...that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be enabled to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage, and resolution in them ? Truly,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 612 pages
...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...that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be enabled to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage, and resolution in them ? Truly,... | |
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