 | 1831 - 652 Seiten
...We had sheathed our swords ' in each other's bowels,' says an eye-witness, ' had not the saga' city and great calmness of Mr Hampden, by a short speech, ' prevented it.' The House did not rise till two in the morning. The situation of the Puritan leaders was now difficult, and full... | |
 | Sir Philip Warwick - 1813 - 506 Seiten
...Tracts, vol. IV. p. 137, where a piece, entitled Ovatio Carolina, gives a full account of the solemnity. our swords in each other's bowels, had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr Hambden, by a short speech prevented it, and led us to defer our angry debate until the next morning.... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 560 Seiten
...Joab's and Abner's young men, had catched at each others locks, and sheathed our swords in each others bowels, had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it, and led us to defer our angry debate until the next morning*." This passage does honor to Hampden's... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1829 - 338 Seiten
...thought we had all sat in the valley of the shadow of death ; for we, like Joab and Abner's young men, had catched at each other's locks, and sheathed our...calmness of Mr Hampden by a short speech prevented it, and led us to defer our angry debate until the next morning." In leaving the House, Lord Falkland asked... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 686 Seiten
...all sat in the valley of the shadow of death ; for we, like Joab and Abner's young men, had catchjed at each other's locks, and sheathed our swords in...calmness of Mr Hampden by a short speech prevented it, and led us to defer our angry debate until the next morning." In leaving the House, Lord Falkland asked... | |
 | George Nugent Grenville Baron Nugent - 1832 - 488 Seiten
...passions and voices was tremendous, and bloodshed, says Sir Philip Warwick, would probably have ensued ; ' we had catched at ' each other's locks, and sheathed...swords ' in each other's bowels, had not the sagacity • Clarendon and Dugdale endeavour to shew, that so many of the old members had left the House, that... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 530 Seiten
...to personal violence. " We had sheathed our " swords in each other's bowels," says an eye-witness, " had not " the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short " speech, prevented it." The House did not rise till two in the morning. The situation of the Puritan leaders was now difficult, and full... | |
 | 1837 - 430 Seiten
...and of passions became tremendous, and bloodshed, sir Philip Warwick says, was like to have ensued. " We had catched at each other's locks, and sheathed...calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it, and led us to defer our angry debate until the next morning." Meanwhile, at about two o'clock, Hampden's... | |
 | 1838 - 380 Seiten
...Joab's and Abner's young men, had catched at each others locks, and sheathed our swords in each others bowels, had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it, and led us to defer our angry debate until the next morning)" — the noble historian tells us, " that... | |
 | Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - 1840 - 1020 Seiten
...thought we had all sat in the valley of the shadow of death ; for we, like Joab and Abner's young men, had catched at each other's locks, and sheathed our...calmness of Mr. Hampden by a short speech prevented us, and led us to defer our angry debate until next morning." And so in truth it was; for at two of... | |
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We had sheathed our swords in each other's bowels,' says an eyewitness, ' had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it. 
