 | Rapin de Thoyras (M., Paul) - Great Britain - 1731 - 556 pages
...that made the Frame, jhould make it good unto me : I can fay in the Prefence 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 any Wood-fide, to have kept a Flock of Sheep, rather than undertaken fuch a Government as this is ;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1810 - 556 pages
...frame, should make it good unto me. I can say, in the presence of God, in comparison with whom weare but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would...have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertook such a government as this is; but, undertaking it by theadvice and petition of you, I did look that... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Orators - 1810 - 544 pages
...in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, 1 would have been glad to have lived under my wood side,...have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertook such a government as this is ; but, undertaking it by theadvice and petition of you, I did look that... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 572 pages
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 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 574 pages
...that made the frame, should make it good unto me. I can say, in the presence of God, in comparison of whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the...under my wood side, to have kept a flock of sheep, J rather than undertook such a Government as this is, but undertaking it by * See supra, p. 371, note.*... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 562 pages
...that made the frame, should make it good unto me. I can say, in the presence of God, in comparison of whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the...lived under my wood side, to have kept a flock of sheep,j rather than undertook such a Government as this is, but undertaking it by * See supra, p. 311,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Christian life - 1829 - 478 pages
...this feeling. " I can say in the presence of God," said he in one of his speeches, " in comparison of whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the...have been glad to have lived under my wood side, to " O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as... | |
 | Robert Southey - Christian life - 1829 - 478 pages
...this feeling. " I can say in the presence of God," said he in one of his speeches, " in comparison of whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the...have been glad to have lived under my wood side, to " O God ! in (-thinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Social problems - 1831 - 488 pages
...this feeling. ' I can say in the presence of ' God,' said he in one of his speeches, ' in comparison of ' whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon...side, to ' have kept a flock of sheep, rather than have undertook such ' a government as this is!' Mr. Towell Rutt (to whom English history is indebted... | |
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I can say 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, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this. 
