...any Wood-fide, to have kept a Flock of Sheep, rather than undertaken fuch a Government as this is ; but undertaking it by the Advice and Petition of you, I did look that you that had offered it unto me jhould make it good. I did tell you, at a Conference concerning it, that...

...under my Wood Side, to have kept a Flock of Sheep, rather than undertook fuch a Government as this is ; but, undertaking it by the Advice and Petition of you, I did look that you, that had offered it unto me, ihould make it good. ' I did tell you, at a Conference concerning it,...

...like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this now is. I desired that between me and the Lower House there should be another House, in order to keep...

...say in the presence of God, in comparison of whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my wood-side, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than have undertook such a go• vernment as this.' And many an ambitious statesman has exclaimed on his...

...under my wood side, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertook such a government as this is ! but, undertaking it by the advice and petition of you, I did look that you, that had offered it unto me, sh«uld make it good. " I did tell you, at a conference concerning it,...

...your Highness ! — His Highness does not complain. " To have kept a flock of sheep," he says] — rather than undertaken such a Government as this....offered it unto me should make it good. I did tell you, at a Conference* concerning it, that I would not undertake it, unless there might be some other Persons...

...the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, — I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep — [ Fes, your Highness ; it had been infinitely quieter, healthier,freer. But it is gone forever:...

...in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside,...sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this !" (iii. 428.) A few months after those words were uttered, that death which Oliver had so often dealt...

...in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my wood-side,...rather than undertaken such a government as this." It requires no uncommon measure of faith to credit this. It was no easy seat that he sat upon. To act...

...in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my wood-side,...rather than undertaken such a government as this." It requires no uncommon measure of faith to credit this. It was no easy seat that he sat upon. To act...