 | William Howitt - 1840
...Jacob Astley on the commencement of this battle, have been much and justly admired — " O Lord ! thon knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me. March on boys ! '' BB "The royal army lay at Banbury; that of the parliament at Kineton, in the county... | |
 | William Howitt - 1840 - 526 Seiten
...Sir Jacob Astley on the commencement of this battle, have been much and justly admired — " O Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thce, do not thou forget me March on boys ! " B i: "The royal army lay at Banbury; that of the parliament... | |
 | Edward Mahon Roose - 1842 - 448 Seiten
...; and the words of the prayer as given by Hume after Warwick are materially different : " O Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day, if I forget thee," &c. Atterbury published four volumes of sermons, in which the great truths of Christianity are enforced... | |
 | 1843
...WHITE LOHD ASTLEY, before he charged, at the battle of Edgehill, made this short prayer : " 0 Lord, Thou knowest how busy I must be this day, if I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me ! " There were certainly," says Hume, " much longer prayers said in the parliamentary army, but I doubt... | |
 | William Goodman - 1843
...Astley, who commanded the foot, made the following remarkable prayer at the commencement : " 0 Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day ; if I forget thee, do not thou forget me. March on, boys !" It is worthy of remark that the long service and military renown of the Puritan campaigners... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1843
...prayer ; for he lifted up his hands and eyes to heaven, saying, ' Oh Lord ! thou knowest how busy 1 must be this day ; if I forget thee, do not thou forget me." And with that he rose up, crying, ' March on, boys !' " Clarendon (Life, i., 160) tells us that Sir... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1844 - 180 Seiten
...parliamentary army, but it may be doubted whether there were so good a one. It was simply this : " O Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day ! If I forget thee, do not thou forget me." He now concluded his brave and irreproachable career, by a saying not less to be remembered by the enemy's... | |
 | Wilhelm Meinhold - 1844 - 171 Seiten
...parliamentary army, but it may be doubted whether there were so good a one. It was simply this : " O Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day ! If I forget thee, do not thou forget me." He now concluded his brave and irreproachable career, by a saying not less to be remembered by the enemy's... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1845 - 166 Seiten
...parliamentary army, but it may be doubted whether there were so good a one. It was simply this : " O Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day ! If I forget thee, do not thou forget me." He now concluded his brave and irreproachable career, by a saying not less to be remembered by the enemy's... | |
 | William Goodman - 1845
...Astley, who commanded the foot, made, the following remarkable prayer at the commencement : " 0 Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day ; if I forget thee, do not thou forget me. March on, boys !" It is worthy of remark that the long service and military renown of the Puritan campaigners... | |
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O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys! 
