fatherhoods

And your fatherhoods may comfort yourselves, that there is not a people in the world more willing to learn what is for their own good, nor more apt to see it, when you have showed it them.

The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644

Which was so sweetly delivered by my Lord Chancellor Phosphorus to the people, that I dare say there was never a one of them could forbear to do as I do-and, it please your fatherhoods, they be tears of joy.

The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644

Wherefore these are to certify to your fatherhoods, that the said votes of the people were as follows, that is to say:

The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644

And to come to your fatherhoods, most truly so called, as being the loving parents of the people, truly you do not know what a feeling they have of your kindness, seeing you are so bound up, that if there comes any harm, they may thank themselves.

The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644

'Fathers conscript, that you may please to take notice it was foretold some horrid sedition is at hand, we shall only desire that they whose valor in this place is so great, may stand by us to see how we behave ourselves, and then be as resolute in your commands as you will; your fatherhoods may know if we be wanting in the performance.'

The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644