 | Francis Maseres - 1815 - 956 pages
...kept the People from uniting into a body able to oppose him. A. Truly I think, if the King had had Money,, he might have had Soldiers enough in England...were very few of the common people that cared much foreither of the causes, but would have taken any side for pay and plunder. But the King's '1 rcasure... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1815 - 478 pages
...oppose him. A. Truly I think, if the King had had Money, he might have had Soldiers enough in England j for there were very few of the common people that cared much for cither of the causes, but would have taken any side for pay and plunder. But the King's Treasure was... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1840 - 548 pages
...kept the people from uniting into a body able to oppose him. A, Truly, I think, if the King had had money, he might have had soldiers enough in England....For there were very few of the common people that wirod much for either of the causes, but would have taken any side for pay or plunder. But the King's... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes - 1906 - 1152 pages
...halfhearted sympathies of the bulk of the people of all classes. " If the King had had money," says Hobbes, " he might have had soldiers enough in England ; for...the common people that cared much for either of the causes, but would have taken any side for pay and plunder." Of the nobility, some, like Savile, oscillated... | |
 | Preston T. King - 1993 - 552 pages
...important in determining the outcome of the English Revolution.114 Truly, I think, if the King had had money, he might have had soldiers enough in England....the common people that cared much for either of the causes, but would have taken any side for pay or plunder. But the King's treasury was very low, and... | |
 | Stephen Holmes - 1995 - 360 pages
...behavior, it seems, can be inferred even from Hobbes's most cynical-sounding claims. The assertion that "there were very few of the common people that cared much for either of the causes, but would have taken any side for pay or plunder" (2) implies that the loyal few, at least,... | |
 | Michael Seidman - 2002 - 318 pages
...were irreconcilable and numerically equivalent." 8. One contemporary of the English civil war wrote, "There were very few of the common people that cared much for either of the causes but they would have taken any side for pay and plunder." Quoted in Ashley 1990:2; see also Underdown... | |
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Truly, I think, if the King had had money, he might have had soldiers enough in England. For there were very few of the common people that cared much for either of the causes, but would have taken any side for pay or plunder. 