 | Oliver Cromwell - 1872 - 294 pàgines
...something in the work. This is very true that I tell you; God knows I lie not.11 "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... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1873 - 438 pàgines
...something in the work This was very true that I tell you ; God knows I lie not. ' 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... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1873 - 408 pàgines
...made some conscience of what they did." But for the rest, he thus described them : — " Yonr troops are most of them old decayed serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality : do you think that the... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1875 - 556 pàgines
...the Parliament. Even Hampden's men were not to his mind. " Your troops," he said to his kinsman, " are most of them old, decayed serving-men and tapsters, and such kind of fellows. You must get men of spirit, and take it not ill that I say, of a spirit that is likely to go as far... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1879 - 424 pàgines
...I, are most of them old decayed serving men, tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and, said I, their troops are gentlemen's sons, and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honor and... | |
 | 1879 - 422 pàgines
...I, are most of them old decayed serving men, tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and, said I, their troops are gentlemen's sons, and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honor and... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1879 - 418 pàgines
...I, are most of them old decayed serving men, tapsters, and such kind of fellows; aud, said I, their troops are gentlemen's sons, and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honor and... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1880 - 1274 pàgines
...worthy friend, a very noble person, Mr. John Hampdcn, and he thus spake to him : — ' Your troops are most of them old decayed serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality: INFLUENCE OF THE PURITANS.... | |
 | Sir William Francis Butler - 1880 - 418 pàgines
...great soldier are worth remembering upon this subject. " Your troops," said Cromwell to Hampden, " are, most of them, old, decayed serving-men and tapsters, and such kind of fellows. You must get men who have the fear of God before them, and some conscience of what they do ; else you... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1881 - 418 pàgines
...the Parliament. Even Hampden's men were not to his mind. " Your troops," he said to his kinsman, " are most of them old, decayed serving-men and tapsters, and such kind of fellows. You must get men of spirit, and take it not ill that I say, of a spirit that is likely to go as far... | |
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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 ever be able... 
