 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1808 - 342 pages
...things would be obedient to his command. Canute, sensible of their adulation, is said to have taken the following method to reprove them. He ordered his chair...to retire. " Thou art under my dominion," cried he j " the land upon which I sit is mine ; I charge thee therefore to approach no farther, nor dare to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 400 pages
...adulation, is said to have taken the following method to reprove them:—He ordered his chair to be set oii the sea-shore while the tide was coming in, and commanded...the sea to retire. " Thou art under my dominion," eried he; " the land upon which I sit. is mine ; I charge thee, therefore, to approach no farther,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 398 pages
...things would be obedient to his command. Canute, sensible of their adulation, is said to have taken the following method to reprove them : He ordered his...sea-shore while the tide was coming in, and commanded 1 he sea to retire. " Thou art under my dominion, cried he, the land upon which I sit is mine ; 1 charge... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 340 pages
...would be obedient to his command. 62. Canute, sensible of their adulation, is said to have taken the following method to reprove them. He ordered his chair to be set on the sea shore while the tide was coming in, and commanded the sen to retire. " Thou art under my dominion,"... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett - 1825 - 480 pages
...his grandeur, exclaimed, that every thing was possible for him ; upon which the monarch, it is said, ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore, while the tide was rising ; and as the waters approached, he commanded them to retire, and to obey the voice of him who... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...admiration of his grandeur, exclaimed that every thing was possible for him. Upon which the monarch ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore while the tide was rising ; and, as the waters approached, l he commanded them to retire, and to obey the voice of him... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1831 - 542 pages
...things would be obedient to his command. Canute, sensible of their adulation, is said to have taken the following method to reprove them. He ordered his chair...tide was coming in, and commanded the sea to retire. — 10. " Thou art under my dominion," cried he, "the land upon which I sit is mine ; I charge thee,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 218 pages
...in admiration of his grandeur, exclaimed, that every thing vas possible for him. Upon this, Canute ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore, while...tide was coming in, and commanded the sea to retire. He feigned to sit for some time, in expectation of submission ; but when the waves began to surround... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 512 pages
...things would be obedient to his command. Canute, sensible of their adulation, is said to have taken the following method to reprove them. He ordered his chair...tide was coming in, and commanded the sea to retire. 10. " Thou art under my dominion," cried he, " the land upon which I sit is mine ; I charge thee, therefore,... | |
 | Eliza Slater - 1843 - 238 pages
...was more than human, and that every thing was possible to him. Upon which the monarch, it is said, ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore, while the tide was coming in; and as the waters approached, he commanded them to retire, and to obey the voice of him who was lord of... | |
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Some of his flatterers breaking out one day in admiration of his grandeur, exclaimed that every thing was possible for him ; upon which the monarch, it is said, ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore, while the tide was rising ; and as the waters... 
