 | Sir Matthew Hale - Christianity - 1805 - 640 pages
...manner, telling him, among other things, * That if the king c coidd have iou-nd out an honefter and fitter man for * that employment, he would not have advanced him * to it ; and that he had therefore preferred him, be' caufe he knew none that deferved it fo well.' It is... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Theology - 1805 - 562 pages
...manner, telling him, among other things, ' That if the king * could have found out an honefler and fitter man for ' that employment, he would not have advanced him * to it ; and that he had therefore preferred him, be' caufe he knew none that deferved it fo well.' It is... | |
 | 1805 - 506 pages
...on delivering the commission, said to him, " that if the king could have found out an honcster and fitter man for that employment, he would not have advanced him to it ; but that he had preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well." It was usual for persons... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 768 pages
...esteem of him in a very singular manner, saying, " that if the king could have found out an honester and fitter man for that employment, he would not have advanced him to 'it; and that he had therefore preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well." It is ordinary... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1810 - 554 pages
...juft elreem for him in the following words. ' That if the king could have found out an honefter and fitter man for that employment, he would not have advanced him to it ; and that he had therefore preferred him, becaufe he knew none that deferved it fo well.' Some time... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...Clarendon delivered him his commission, he told him that " if the king could have found out an honester and fitter man for that employment, he would not have advanced him to it; and that he had therefore preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well." As he knew... | |
 | Theology - 1813 - 486 pages
...esteem of him in a very singular manner, saying, " that if the king could have found out an honester and fitter man for that employment, he would not have advanced him to it; and that he had therefore preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well." It is ordinary... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...Clarendon delivered him his commission, he told him that" if the king could have found out an honester and fitter man for that employment, he would not have advanced him to it ; and that he had therefore preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well." As he knew... | |
 | Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...Clarendon delivened him his commission, he told him that " if the king could have found out an honester and fitter man for that employment, he would not have advanced him to it ; and that he had therefore preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well." As he knew... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Conduct of life - 1816 - 232 pages
...out an honester and fitter mafi for that employment, he would not have advanced him to it; and that he had therefore preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well." The honour of knighthood is usually granted to those who are advanced to this dignity ; but such was... | |
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... that if the King could have found out an honester and fitter man for that employment, he would not have advanced him to it; and that he had therefore preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well. 
