| Mary Hays - Women - 1803 - 414 pages
...copy: • • * • « SIR, *' Your grace's displeasure and my imprisonment are things so strange unto me, as what to write or what to excuse I am altogether ignorant. Whereas you send unto me (willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain your favour) by such an one whom you know to... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...Cotton Lib. '.YOUR Grace's displeasure and my iraOtho C. 10. prisonment are things so strange unto me, as what to write, or what to excuse, I am altogether ignorant. Whereas you send unto me (willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain your favour) by such an ope, whom you know to... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...letter to King Henry. " Your grace's displeasure, and my imprisonrnent, are things so strange unto me, as what to write, or what to excuse, I am altogether ignorant. Whereas you send unto me (willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain your favour) by such an one, whom you know to... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 480 pages
...It is as follows : " Sir, your grace's displeasure and my imprisonment " are things so 'strange unto me, as what to write or what " to excuse I am altogether ignorant. Whereas you send " unto me (willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain " your favour) by such an one whom you know... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 332 pages
...what a pitch of refinement she had carried the language even then. It is as follows : " Sir, ' " Your grace's displeasure, and my imprisonment, are things...strange to me, as what to write, or what to excuse, 1 am altogether igno* rant. Whereas you send unto me, (willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 514 pages
...It is as follows: " Sir, your grace's displeasure and my imprisonment are things " so strange unto me, as what to write or what to excuse I am " altogether ignorant Whereas you send unto me (willing me " to confess a truth, 'and so obtain your favour) by such an one " whom you know... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 362 pages
...•Cotton Lib. > < YOUR grace's displeasure, and my Otho C. 10. ^ imprisonment, are things so strange unto me, as what to write, or what to excuse, I am altogether ignorant. Whereas you send unto me, (willing me to confess a truth, and to obtain your favour) by such an one, whom you know to... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...to King Henry.* " SIR, " YOUR grace's displeasure, and my imprisonment, are things so strange unto me, as what to write, or what to excuse, I am altogether ignorant. Whereas you send unto me (willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain your favour) by such an one, whom you know to... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...BULLEN TO KING HENRY VIII. SIR, YOUR grace's displeasure and my imprisonment are things so strange unto me, as what to write, or what to excuse, I am altogether ignorant. — Whereas you send unto me (willing me to confess * From which he was banished by Heury the Sixth. a truth, and so obtain... | |
| Elizabeth Helme - Great Britain - 1818 - 334 pages
..." SIR, " Your grace's displeasure and my imprisonment are things so strange unto me, VOL. i. p that what to write, or what to excuse, I am altogether ignorant, whereas you send unto me (•willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain your favour) by such a one you know to be... | |
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