Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Oliver Cromwell. By John ForsterLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1838 - Statesmen |
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... close its detail of events on the eve of the usurpation . It was also his wish to associate with the policy of the PROTECTORATE some idea of the men and the times of which it proved the hot - bed , in a life of the first Shaftesbury ...
... close its detail of events on the eve of the usurpation . It was also his wish to associate with the policy of the PROTECTORATE some idea of the men and the times of which it proved the hot - bed , in a life of the first Shaftesbury ...
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... close is given in Fuller's Church History . Here are Stow's words : " On May - day was a great triumph of justing at Westminster , which justs had been pro- claimed in France , Flanders , Scotland , and Spain , for all commers that ...
... close is given in Fuller's Church History . Here are Stow's words : " On May - day was a great triumph of justing at Westminster , which justs had been pro- claimed in France , Flanders , Scotland , and Spain , for all commers that ...
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... close attention to the administration of public affairs perhaps because it wastes the spirits necessary for action , and , by gradually consuming them , causes the mind , in proportion as it is deprived of them , to grow languid . These ...
... close attention to the administration of public affairs perhaps because it wastes the spirits necessary for action , and , by gradually consuming them , causes the mind , in proportion as it is deprived of them , to grow languid . These ...
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... close , and with them the imputations they gave birth to - when higher purposes and objects were to wake out of their early sleep in Cromwell's heart , and thenceforth sleep no more when his fellow townsmen were to ask with wonder among ...
... close , and with them the imputations they gave birth to - when higher purposes and objects were to wake out of their early sleep in Cromwell's heart , and thenceforth sleep no more when his fellow townsmen were to ask with wonder among ...
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... close a reference to this subject to be omitted here ; and the writer was too can- did as well as industrious not to have a right to claim fair attention to what he supposes himself to have had reason to believe in a case of this kind ...
... close a reference to this subject to be omitted here ; and the writer was too can- did as well as industrious not to have a right to claim fair attention to what he supposes himself to have had reason to believe in a case of this kind ...
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Page 67 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish ; his...
Page 284 - The Lord at thy right hand: Shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies : He shall wound the heads over many countries.
Page 37 - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Page 198 - For what do the enemy say? Nay, what do many say that were friends at the beginning of the Parliament ? Even this, that the members of both houses have got great places and commands, and the sword into their hands ; and, what by interest in Parliament, what by power in the army, will perpetually continue themselves in grandeur, and not permit the war speedily to end, lest their own power should determine with it.
Page 118 - Byron's regiment, then advancing upon the enemy, who had lined the hedges on both sides with musketeers ; from whence he was shot with a musket in the lower part of the belly ; and in the instant falling from his horse, his body was not found till the next morning...
Page 117 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
Page 214 - Sir, they are trusty, I beseech you in the name of God not to discourage them. I wish this action may •beget thankfulness and humility in all that are concerned in it. He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience...
Page 65 - This done, he makes through a number of people towards his coach, all gazing, no man capping to him, before whom that morning the greatest of England would have stood discovered, all crying. What is the matter ? he said, A small matter, I warrant you...
Page 43 - And who that had beheld such a bankrupt, beggarly fellow as Cromwell, first entering the Parliament House, with a threadbare, torn cloak and greasy hat (and, perhaps, neither of them paid for), could have suspected that, in the space of so few years he should, by the murder of one king and the banishment of another, ascend the throne, be invested in the royal robes, and want nothing of the state of a king but the changing of his hat into a crown...
Page 84 - ... that if the Remonstrance had been rejected he would have sold all he had the next morning, and never have seen England / more ; and he knew there were many other honest men of the same resolution.