 | Sir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling - 1884 - 1244 sidor
...courage. What their particular form of creed was he eared little. " The state," he declared, " in ehocsing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing to serve it faithfully, that suffices." His enemies termed him " the great Independent," and saw in... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1885 - 812 sidor
...of that ? Admit he be, shall that render him incapable to serve the public ? . . . Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to servo it, that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with men of different minds from yourself... | |
 | 1900 - 848 sidor
...is an anabaptist! Admit he be, shall that render him incapable to serve the public? Sir, the state, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object... | |
 | 1900 - 906 sidor
...careful to mount such. I had rather have a plain russethim incapable to serve the public ? the state, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. . . . Take heed of being sharp or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh - 1887 - 328 sidor
...Teprimand, because Crawford has discountenanced an "anabaptist " Lieutenant-Colonel : " Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. I advised you tormer'.y to bear with men of different minds from yourself. Take heed of being too sharp,... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1888 - 248 sidor
...is indiscreet." It may be so, in some things : we have all human infirmities. . . . Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with men of different minds from yourself : if you had done it when... | |
 | 1888 - 770 sidor
..."Admit he did," wrote Cromwell, "shall that render him incapable to serve the public 1 Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies." Toleration this, which nobody else in those days even pretended to practise, and which he himself failed... | |
 | Alfred F. Robbins - 1888 - 232 sidor
...interferes with personal opinion or private enterprise. The noble saying of Cromwell — " The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies " — spoken before its time, as even some of the Protector's friends may have considered, must now... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green - 1888 - 684 sidor
...Earl of Manchester, and had suspended an officer for unconforruable opinions, he says,1 ' The state in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. ... I desire you would receive this man into your favour and good opinion. I believe, if he follow... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1889 - 954 sidor
...driven — as in the social change we noticed before — to a far larger and grander point of view. But as yet he was busier with his new regiment than with theories of Church and State ; and his horsemen were no sooner in action than they proved themselves such soldiers... | |
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Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies. 
