Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Oliver Cromwell. By John ForsterLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1838 - Statesmen |
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... give this only as the report of the place : thus far is certain , that Hinchinbrook , as being near Huntingdon , was generally one of the resting - places , when any of the royal family were going to or return- ing from the north of ...
... give this only as the report of the place : thus far is certain , that Hinchinbrook , as being near Huntingdon , was generally one of the resting - places , when any of the royal family were going to or return- ing from the north of ...
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... give the story as in the text . " " Twas at this time of his adolescency , that he dreamed , or a familiar rather instincted him and put it into his head , that he should be king of England ; for it cannot be con- ceived , that now ...
... give the story as in the text . " " Twas at this time of his adolescency , that he dreamed , or a familiar rather instincted him and put it into his head , that he should be king of England ; for it cannot be con- ceived , that now ...
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... give it them at the charge of his host , and in satisfaction thereof either beat him , or break his windows , if he offered any shew , or gave any look or sign of refusal or discontent . . . . His OLIVER CROMWELL . 27.
... give it them at the charge of his host , and in satisfaction thereof either beat him , or break his windows , if he offered any shew , or gave any look or sign of refusal or discontent . . . . His OLIVER CROMWELL . 27.
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... give him the way ; so that he was a rebel in manners , long before he was a Belial in policy . . . . I am loath to be too large in such parti- culars , which may render me suspect of belying him , out of prejudice or revenge ; but I ...
... give him the way ; so that he was a rebel in manners , long before he was a Belial in policy . . . . I am loath to be too large in such parti- culars , which may render me suspect of belying him , out of prejudice or revenge ; but I ...
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... gives us a par- ticular account of his gallantries , introduces him to an audience ( of the French king , and an intimacy with cardinal Richelieu . Upon his return he assures us , that Cromwell was highly in the good graces of Dr. Wil ...
... gives us a par- ticular account of his gallantries , introduces him to an audience ( of the French king , and an intimacy with cardinal Richelieu . Upon his return he assures us , that Cromwell was highly in the good graces of Dr. Wil ...
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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.