 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 704 pages
...proceeding to personal violence. "We had sheathed our swords in each other's bowels," says an eye-witness, " had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it." The House did not rise till two in the morning. The situation of the Puritan leaders was now difficult... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 pages
...proceeding to personal violence. "We had sheathed our swords in each other's bowels," says an eye-witness, "had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it." The House did not rise till two in the morning. The situation of the Puritan leaders was now difficult... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 pages
...proceeding to personal violence. " We had sheathed our swords in each other's bowels," says an eyewitness, "had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it. The House did not rise till two in the morning. Q The situation of the Puritan leaders was now difficult... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - English essays - 1875 - 412 pages
...his sword in his fellow's side, and so fell down together; a result which might have followed here, had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it. " It is not perhaps difficult to imagine, from what D'Ewes goes on to say of the short but memorable... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 414 pages
...his sword in his fellow's side, and so fell down together ; a result which might have followed here, had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it. " It is not perhaps difficult to imagine, from what D'Ewes goes on to say of the short but memorable... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1875 - 556 pages
...meanwhile presented a fearful scene of uproar, which lasted till three on Tuesday morning. " We had catcht at each other's locks, and sheathed our swords in each other's bowels," says Herbert, " had not the sagacity of Mr. Hampden by a short speech prevented it." " Well," said... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1876 - 408 pages
...political opponents, incidentally describes his great influence in a certain debate : " We had catched at each other's locks, and sheathed our swords in...calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it, and led us to defer our angry debate until the next morning." A strong temper is not necessarily a... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - Constitutional history - 1877 - 386 pages
...wildest uproar ensued, which lasted till three in the morning. Warwick, who was present, says : " We had sheathed our swords in each other's bowels, had not...of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it." 4 In the. end, the printing of the Remonstrance was postponed until further orders, but the House refused... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - Constitutional history - 1877 - 388 pages
...wildest uproar ensued, which lasted till three in the morning. Warwick, who was present, says : " We had sheathed our swords in each other's bowels, had not...calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it."4 In the end, the printing of the Remonstrance was postponed until further orders, but the House... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - Anecdotes - 1880 - 842 pages
...protest against the printing. " We had catched at each other's locks," wrote Sir Philip Warwick, " and sheathed our swords in each other's bowels, had...calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it, and led us to defer our angry debate until the next morning." Marks of a Bad Subject. — The only... | |
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We had sheathed our swords in each other's bowels,' says an eyewitness, ' had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it. 
