 | Edward Foss - 1870 - 816 páginas
...whether he saw any of them ? and where they were ? ' the speaker, falling on his knees, replied, ' May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to...whose servant I am here; and humbly beg your majesty's parDJ>2 LEJÍTHALL don that I cannot give anv other answer than this to what your majesty is pleased... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1870 - 242 páginas
...arrest five of its members, and demanded of Mr Speaker Lenthall where they were, the Speaker replied, " I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here ; and I humbly beg your Majesty's pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your Majesty... | |
 | John Richard Andrews (barrister.) - 1870 - 482 páginas
...enquired whether he saw any of them, and where they were. The Speaker replied, falling on his knees : ' I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in...place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose ROYAL INTIMIDATION. 147 servant I am here, and humbly beg your Majesty's pardon that I cannot give... | |
 | David Masson - 1871 - 636 páginas
...accused were in the House, and, if so, where. "May it please your Majesty," said Lenthall, kneeling, " I have neither eyes to see nor " tongue to speak in...pleased " to direct me, whose servant I am here ; and I humbly beg " your Majesty's pardon that I cannot give any other answer " than this to what your Majesty... | |
 | Christopher Hill - 1982 - 308 páginas
...But in 1642, when Charles I came to arrest five members of Parliament, Speaker Lenthall said to him, 'I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am.' So the revolution was completed by which the Speaker ceased to be the King's servant and became the... | |
 | David M. Olson - 1994 - 206 páginas
...Parliament in 1640, demanding to know whether several members, whom he was going to arrest, were present: "May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to...nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House doth direct me, whose servant I am." Bailey 1971, 62 The very name, "Speaker," illustrates the tortured... | |
 | Robert Unwin - 1996 - 124 páginas
...flown, I do expect from you that you shall send them unto me as soon as they return ... The Speaker: May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to...this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me. 1 Look at Source A. The Churchman shown in the pulpit is named in the cartoon. Who is he? What is he... | |
 | Andy Williams - 1998 - 260 páginas
...an agent of the monarch. This link was not broken until 1642 when Speaker Lenthall told Charles I: 'I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in...is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here.' Since the mid-nineteenth century the Speaker has been seen as a neutral figure. Elected by MPs, the... | |
 | Mike Corbishley - 1998 - 420 páginas
...members were. The Speaker, William Lenthall, knelt respectlully and replied. May it please Your Mafesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, but as this House is pleased to direct me, whose servant 1 am heiv. The king realized he had been outwitted.... | |
 | Nigel Kelly, Jane Shuter, Rosemary Rees - 1998 - 296 páginas
...to send them to me as soon as they return. The Speaker refused to be bullied by the King, saying / have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, except as the House is pleased to direct me. Charles was furious especially as Parliament now knew... | |
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