The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies...C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... present at the battle of Edgehill in 1642. Having been incorpo- rated Doctor of Physic by the University of Oxford , he was promoted by Charles to the Wardenship of Merton College in 1645 ; but he did not retain this office very long ...
... present at the battle of Edgehill in 1642. Having been incorpo- rated Doctor of Physic by the University of Oxford , he was promoted by Charles to the Wardenship of Merton College in 1645 ; but he did not retain this office very long ...
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... it has been cut out . It seems that they now point out what is called Slepe Hall , being the last house at the south - eastern extremity of the town , as the one in which he lived ; it serves at present CROMWELL . 25 25.
... it has been cut out . It seems that they now point out what is called Slepe Hall , being the last house at the south - eastern extremity of the town , as the one in which he lived ; it serves at present CROMWELL . 25 25.
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one in which he lived ; it serves at present for a boarding- school , and Mr. Carlyle , from whose late work , ' Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches , ' we derive our in- formation , appears to make it out that the local tradition is ...
one in which he lived ; it serves at present for a boarding- school , and Mr. Carlyle , from whose late work , ' Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches , ' we derive our in- formation , appears to make it out that the local tradition is ...
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... present , would be sure , in such a state of things as was now coming on , to make themselves be felt in due time . All old artificial props and ligaments were about to fall off , and older Nature to resume her supremacy and sole ...
... present , would be sure , in such a state of things as was now coming on , to make themselves be felt in due time . All old artificial props and ligaments were about to fall off , and older Nature to resume her supremacy and sole ...
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... present as a party , and , by direction of the committee , sitting covered . Cromwell ( who had never before been heard to speak in the House of Commons ) , ordered the wit nesses and petitioners in the method of the proceeding , and ...
... present as a party , and , by direction of the committee , sitting covered . Cromwell ( who had never before been heard to speak in the House of Commons ) , ordered the wit nesses and petitioners in the method of the proceeding , and ...
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Page 17 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 40 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Page 71 - Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal.
Page 39 - Truly England and the Church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given unto us, such as the like never was since this war began. It had all the evidences of an absolute victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the Godly Party principally.
Page 136 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Page 46 - And sends the fowls to us in care On daily visits through the air. He hangs in shades the orange bright Like...
Page 73 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
Page 38 - The Naked Truth ; or the true state of the Primitive Church. By an humble Moderator.
Page 34 - I did so, and the result was — impute it to what you please — I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, as made some conscience of what they did ; and from that day forward, I must say to you, they were never beaten, and wherever they were engaged against the enemy, they beat continually.
Page 88 - Leviathan," which is now mightily called for; and what was heretofore sold for 8s. I now give 24s. for, at the second hand, and is sold for 30s., it being a book the Bishops will not let be printed again.