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" Pray, Mr. Hampden, who is that man, for I see he is on our side, by his speaking so warmly to-day? " — " That sloven," said Mr. Hampden, prophetically, " whom you see before you, hath no ornament in his speech ; that sloven, I say, if we should ever... "
The Monthly Review - Page 174
1832
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 7, Part 1

John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 882 pages
...sloven," replied Hampden, " whom you see before you, hath no ornament in his speech ; that sloven, I say, if we should ever come to a breach with the King,...that sloven will be the greatest man in England." Oliver's ' uncourtly' appearance at this period, is also mentioned by Sir P. Warwick, who says, " The...
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A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Huntingdon ...

Edward Wedlake Brayley - Huntingdonshire (England) - 1808 - 290 pages
...sloven," replied Hampden, " whom you see before yon, hath no ornament in his speech ; that sloven, I say, if we should ever come to a breach with the King,...such a case, I say, that sloven will be the greatest mau in England." Oliver's ' uncourtly' appearance at this period, is also mentioned by Sir P. Warwick,...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 7

John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 896 pages
...before you, hath no ornament in his speech; that sloven, I say, if we should ever come to a lireach with the King, which God forbid! in such a case, I...that sloven will be the greatest man in England." Oliver's ' uncoiirtly' appearance at this period, is also mentioned by Sir P. Warwick, who says, "...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 11

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 544 pages
...sloven," replied Hampden, " whom you see before us, who has no ornament in his speech ; that sloven, l say, if we should ever come to a breach with the king,...that sloven will be the greatest man in England." This prophecy, which was so fully accomplished, rose chiefly from the sense Hampden had of Cromwell's...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 542 pages
...sloven," replied Hampden, " whom you see before us, who has no ornament in his speech; that sloven, 1 say, if we should ever come to a breach with the king,...that sloven will be the greatest man in England." This prophecy, which was so fully accomplished, rose chiefly from the sense Hampden had of Cromwell's...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...no ornament in his speech ; that sloven, I say, if we should ever come to a breach with VOL. III. Y the King, which God forbid ! in such a case, I say,...that sloven will be the greatest man in England." This prophecy, which was so fully accomplished, rose «Wefty from the sense Hampden had of Cromwell's...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 612 pages
...have replied, 'That sloven whom yon see before you, hath no ornament in his speech ; that sloven, 1 say, if we should ever come to a breach with the king...that sloven will be the greatest man in England.' Baxter has said of Hampden, that he was a man whom ' friends and enemies acknowledged to be most eminent...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...have replied, ' That sloven whom you see before you, hath no ornament in his speech ; that sloven, I say, if we should ever come to a breach with the king...that sloven will be the greatest man in England.' Baxter has said of Hampden, that he was a man whom ' friends and enemies acknowledged to be most eminent...
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The Chronicle of the Kings of England: From William the Norman to the Death ...

Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Great Britain - 1821 - 304 pages
...That sloven,'' said Hampden, " whom you see hefore you has no ornament in his speech ; that sloven, I say, if we should ever come to a breach •with the King, (which God forhid !) in such a case, I say, that sloven will he the greatest man in England." Subsequent events...
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Oliver Cromwell and His Times

Thomas Cromwell - Great Britain - 1822 - 616 pages
...flocen" replied Hampden, "whom you see before yon, hath no ornament iu his speech : that sloven, I say, if we should ever come to a breach with the King, (which God forbid !) in such a case, 1 say, that sloven will be the greatest man in England.' tcr would not bear much of reason, it being...
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