 | George Brodie - Great Britain - 1822 - 582 pages
...before your downgoing ; and for the other, I will only say, that so long as this covenant is in force, whether it be with or without explanation, I have...Venice, which I will rather die than suffer : Yet 1 commend the giving ear to the explanation, or any thing else to win time, which now I see is one... | |
 | George Brodie - Great Britain - 1822 - 630 pages
...which I will rather die than suffer: Yet 1 commend the giving ear to the explanation, or any thing else to win time, which now I see is one of your chiefest cares, wherefore I need not recommend it to you *." These letters at once solve the question as to this prince's sincerity; and whether piety, or a... | |
 | George Buchanan - Scotland - 1827 - 588 pages
...is answer sufficient ;" " for the other, I will only say, that so long as this covenant is in force, whether it be with or without explanation, I have...yet I commend the giving ear to the explanation, or any thing else to win time." " Lastly, my resolution is to come myself in person, accompanied like... | |
 | George Buchanan - Scotland - 1827 - 590 pages
...only say, that so long as this covenant is in force, whether it be with or without explanation, I hare no more power in Scotland than as a duke of Venice,...yet I commend the giving ear to the explanation, or any thing else to win time." " Lastly, my resolution is to come myself iu person, accompanied like... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1833 - 390 pages
...For the rest he thus expressed himself: " As concerning the explanation of their damnable CoTCnant, whether it be with or without explanation, I have...Yet I commend the giving ear to the explanation, or any thing else to win time And for their calling a parliament or assembly without me, 1 should not... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1833 - 640 pages
...For the rest he thus expressed himself : " As concerning the explanation of their damnable covenant, whether it be with or without explanation, I have...as a duke of Venice, which I will rather die than suf• Kushworth, ii. 752. fer : Yet I commend the giving car to the explanation, or anything else... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1833 - 636 pages
...power in Scotland than as a duke of Venice, which I will rather die than suf" Rushworth, ii. 752. fer : Yet I commend the giving ear to the explanation, or anything else to win time And for. their calling a parliament or assembly without me, I should not much be sorry, for it would... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1835 - 394 pages
...authority. § " As concerning the explanation of their damnable covenant," said the king in reply, " whether it be with or without explanation, I have no more power in Scotland than a duke of Venice, which I would rather die than suffer." || Hamilton, according to one party, employed... | |
 | John Aiton - Covenanters - 1836 - 702 pages
...Covenant is in force, whether it be with or without explanation, I have no more power in Scotland than a Duke of Venice, which I will rather die than suffer. Yet I command the giving ear to the explanation, or any thing else, to win time." * Mr Brodie expresses unqualified... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - Reformation - 1841 - 602 pages
...explanation of their damnable Covenant, I will only say, that so long as this Covenant is in force, whether it be with or without explanation, I have...Duke of Venice, which I will rather die than suffer." On his arrival in Scotland, however, Hamilton soon found that he had to deal with a people who were... | |
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I will only say, that so long as this Covenant is in force, whether it be with or without explanation, I have no more power in Scotland than as a duke of Venice, which I will rather die than suffer. 
