Eikon Basilike

Cited as Eikon Basilike. — 21 quotations

Without any of those dresses, or popular captations, which some men use in their speeches.

The world's opinion or diminution of me.

Wash me with that precious effusion, and I shall be whiter than sow.

By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting.

All art is used to sink episcopacy, and launch presbytery in England.

He was driven by the necessities of the times, more than led by his own disposition, to any rigor of actions.

Denying me any power of a negative voice.

My people's pressures are grievous.

My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.

Other men's insatiable desire of revenge hath wholly beguiled both church and state of the benefit of all my either retractions or concessions.

Sacred truths cleared from all rust and dross of human mixtures.

They admit many salvos, cautions, and reservations.

A means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me as to make me repent of that unjust act.

I may yet survive the malice of my enemies, although they should be satiated with my blood.

Set bounds to our passions by reason, to our errors by truth, and to our schisms by charity.

A gallant man had rather fight to great disadvantage in the field, in an orderly way, than scuffle with an undisciplined rabble.

I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others.

I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity.

I never bare any touch of conscience with greater regret.

That after act vacating the authority of the precedent.

The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness.