A Lecture on the Life and Character of Oliver Cromwell: Delivered Before the Young Men's Literary Association of Cleveland ... Jan. 28, 1847Younglove's Steam Press, 1850 - 155 páginas |
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... Puritan Revolt , " ought long since to have excited , at least in all American minds , a strong suspicion as to their truthfulness and fairness . Since the reins of government fell from the feeble hands of his son Richard , there has ...
... Puritan Revolt , " ought long since to have excited , at least in all American minds , a strong suspicion as to their truthfulness and fairness . Since the reins of government fell from the feeble hands of his son Richard , there has ...
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... Puritans : his indolence , which often kept him from needful research ; his oppo- sition to constitutional liberty , which led him sometimes - as Charles Fox and later writers have demonstrated - to forge facts where he needed them ...
... Puritans : his indolence , which often kept him from needful research ; his oppo- sition to constitutional liberty , which led him sometimes - as Charles Fox and later writers have demonstrated - to forge facts where he needed them ...
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... Puritans , be carefully marked . Let those who affirm that he put on religion as a cloak to his ambition , observe that his piety dates back twenty years prior to the opening of the civil war- that he became a zealous Puritan at a time ...
... Puritans , be carefully marked . Let those who affirm that he put on religion as a cloak to his ambition , observe that his piety dates back twenty years prior to the opening of the civil war- that he became a zealous Puritan at a time ...
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... Puritan brethren - among whom bloomed the noble , the beautiful , the devoted Arbella Johnson - went almost from his very neighborhood and laid the foundation of Boston . Do any say , " Cromwell was a keen , far - sighted observer , and ...
... Puritan brethren - among whom bloomed the noble , the beautiful , the devoted Arbella Johnson - went almost from his very neighborhood and laid the foundation of Boston . Do any say , " Cromwell was a keen , far - sighted observer , and ...
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... Puritans , whom infidels have been so much in the habit of abusing , might be regarded as an important concession , and as such , possessing an additional element of credibility . When a hater of religion , like Hume , maligns the ...
... Puritans , whom infidels have been so much in the habit of abusing , might be regarded as an important concession , and as such , possessing an additional element of credibility . When a hater of religion , like Hume , maligns the ...
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Página 113 - Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service; and many of them have set too high a value upon me, though others wish, and would be glad of my death ; but, Lord, however Thou do dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them.
Página 113 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' the air ; strange screams of death: And, prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events, New hatch'd to the woeful time, The obscure bird clamour'd the live-long night : Some say the earth was feverous, and did shake.
Página 113 - Lord, however thou dost dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them ; give them consistency of judgment, one heart, and mutual love, and go on to deliver them ; and with the work of reformation ; and make the name of Christ glorious in the world...
Página 67 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed, And on the neck of crowned Fortune proud Hast reared God's trophies, and his work pursued ; While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath...
Página 84 - The mind is the man. If that be kept pure, a man signifies somewhat; if not, I would very fain see what difference there is betwixt him and a beast He hath only some activity to do some more mischief.
Página 54 - Janus, with his two controversial faces, might now not unsignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and...
Página 77 - I meddle not with any man's conscience. But if by liberty of conscience, you mean a liberty to exercise the Mass, I judge it best to use plain dealing, and to let you know, Where the Parliament of England have power, that will not he allowed of.
Página 30 - Church to be fired, when one of them was heard to say in the midst of the flames : " God damn me, God confound me ; I burn, I burn.