 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - Huntingdonshire (England) - 1808 - 290 pages
...intended by the writer to have any covert allusion. " The dimensions of this mercy," he continues, " are above my thoughts; it is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy." These words have been supposed to indicate, that his secret aspiring to tbe throne was of long continuance... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 882 pages
...intended by the writer to have any covert allusion. " The dimensions of this mercy," he continues, " are above my thoughts; it is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy." These words have been supposed to indicate, that his secret aspiring to the throne was of long continuance... | |
 | 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
...anniversary of the battle of Dunbar. In his letter to the Parliament, he says, ' the dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts, it is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy. I am bold, humbly to beg that all thoughts may tend to the promoting of his honour, who hath wrought... | |
 | 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
...anniversary of the battle of Dunbar. In his letter to the Parliament, he says, ' the dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts, it is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy. I am bold, humbly to beg that all thoughts may tend to the promoting of his honour, who hath wrought... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - Great Britain - 1822 - 622 pages
...words, however, occurring in the letter we have already quoted, were : ' The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts; it is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy.' Expressions, which at the time could only have been understood to mean, that the victory of Worcester... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Great Britain - 1826 - 182 pages
...noblemen and officers of quality ; indeed it was a very stiff business. " The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts — it is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy. I am bold humbly to beg, that the fatness of these continued mercies may not occasion pride and wantonness,... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 686 pages
...stiffe businesse, and yet I do not think we have lost two hundred men. The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts ; it is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy ; surely, if it be not, such a one we shall have." He concludes by begging that all thoughts may tend... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1829 - 352 pages
...stifle businesse, and yet I do not think we have lost two hundred men. The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts ; it is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy ; surely, if it be not, such a one we shall have." He concludes by begging that all thoughts may tend... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1838 - 394 pages
...etiffe businesse, and yet I dp not think we have lost two hundred men. The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts ; it is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy ; surely if it be not, such a one we shall have." He concludes by begging that all thoughts may tend... | |
 | Statesmen - 1838 - 380 pages
...write," he yet wrote to the parliament of England these memorable words. " The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know a crowning mercy." A CROWNING MERCY indeed ! APPENDIX. A. THE industry of Mr. Noble has finally settled the point of Oliver... | |
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The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy. 
