 | William Ansell Day - 1879 - 222 pages
...were it not for gaining honour ; for let occasion be never so handsome (unless a man were resolved to fight on the Parliament side, which for my part...doubt, that a man is afraid to fight. If there could bean expedient found to salve the punctilio of honour, I would not continue here an hour. The discontent... | |
 | Pythouse papers - 1879 - 222 pages
...were it not for gaining honour ; for let occasion be never so handsome (unless a man were resolved to fight on the Parliament side, which for my part...doubt, that a man is afraid to fight. If there could bean expedient found to salve the punctilio of honour, I would not continue here an hour. The discontent... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1886 - 598 pages
...were it not for grinning honour. For let occasion be never so handsome, unless a man were resolved to fight on the Parliament side, which, for my part,...punctilio of honour, I would not continue here an hour. The discontent that I and many other honest men receive daily is beyond expression." 2 1 LJ v. 376.... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1886 - 602 pages
...were it not for grinning honour. For let occasion be never so handsome, unless a man were resolved to fight on the Parliament side, which, for my part,...punctilio of honour, I would not continue here an hour. The discontent that I and many other honest men receive daily is beyond expression." 2 1 LJ v. 376.... | |
 | Julia Cartwright, Julia Mary Cartwright Ady - 1893 - 340 pages
...let occasion be never so handsome, unless a man were reduced to fight on the Parliament side, than which, for my part, I had rather be hanged, it will...to fight. If there could be an expedient found, to save the punctilio of honour, I would not continue here an hour. The discontent that I, and many other... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1901 - 324 pages
...course open save to throw in 1 Writing to his wife shortly before his death, Lord Sunderland confessed : "If there could be an expedient found to salve the punctilio of honour, I would not continue here [with the King] an hour. The discontent that I, and many other honest men, receive daily, is beyond... | |
 | John Lingard - 1902 - 686 pages
...for the bishops, whose quarrel it was. — Clarendon's Life, 69. Lord Spencer writes to his lady, " If there could be an expedient found to " salve the...would not continue here an hour." — Sidney Papers, ii. 667. 1 Thomas Reynolds and Bartholomew Roe, on Jan. ai ; John Lockwood and Edmund Caterick, on... | |
 | 1903 - 468 pages
...whose quarrel it was."2 In the same tone Lord Spencer writes to his wife from the King's quarters, " If there could be an expedient found to salve the punctilio of honour, I would not continue here an hour."3 Again, most people must have read the story of the King's pathetic speech and his allusion... | |
 | 1843 - 522 pages
...were it not for grinning honour. For let occasion be never so handsome, unless a man were resolved to fight on the parliament side, which, for my part, I had rather he hanged, it will he said without doubt that a man is afraid to fight. If there could be an expedient... | |
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For let occasion be never so handsome, unless a man were resolved to fight on the parliament side, which, for my part, I had rather be hanged, it will be said without doubt, that a man is afraid to fight. If there could be an expedient found to salve... 
