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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... sometimes - as Charles Fox and later writers have demonstrated - to forge facts where he needed them , and to suppress facts where they confronted him ; and his hostility to religious zeal , which prompted him to brand intelligent ...
... sometimes - as Charles Fox and later writers have demonstrated - to forge facts where he needed them , and to suppress facts where they confronted him ; and his hostility to religious zeal , which prompted him to brand intelligent ...
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... sometimes a remonstrance on the side of those who sighed for free- dom ; on the other , there had been insolence , cruelty , and a manifest determination to keep whatever power it possessed and to gain as much more as it could . No man ...
... sometimes a remonstrance on the side of those who sighed for free- dom ; on the other , there had been insolence , cruelty , and a manifest determination to keep whatever power it possessed and to gain as much more as it could . No man ...
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... sometimes styles men fanatics whom his own statement of facts proves to have been sagacious , clear - headed and liberal in their sentiments ; and he sometimes blames Cromwell and others for doing what his own narrative shows that they ...
... sometimes styles men fanatics whom his own statement of facts proves to have been sagacious , clear - headed and liberal in their sentiments ; and he sometimes blames Cromwell and others for doing what his own narrative shows that they ...
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... sometimes been denounced as arrogant , implacable , and ambitious ! Great , however , as was their danger , they adopted no hasty mea sure in self - defence . Cromwell , with a portion of the army , having quickly and easily crushed the ...
... sometimes been denounced as arrogant , implacable , and ambitious ! Great , however , as was their danger , they adopted no hasty mea sure in self - defence . Cromwell , with a portion of the army , having quickly and easily crushed the ...
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... sometimes himself ad- dressing different proposals to the House , sometimes seeking to elude his own concessions , pertinacious in asserting his right at the very moment he was giving it up , inexhaustible in subtleties and reticences ...
... sometimes himself ad- dressing different proposals to the House , sometimes seeking to elude his own concessions , pertinacious in asserting his right at the very moment he was giving it up , inexhaustible in subtleties and reticences ...
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admiration amid army authority bear-baiting Bishop Burnet blood capital punishment Cardinal Mazarin Carlyle cause CHARACTER OF OLIVER Charles II Christian Church civil Clarendon CLEVELAND commander Commonwealth Commonwealth of England courage court Covenant Covenanters Crom Cromwell's dangerous death declared defend despotism Divine Drogheda duty endeavor enemy England English facts faith fanatical favor friends genius glory Guizot heart honor hope human Hume Independents Ireland Irish justice King labored lecture less letters liberal lives Lord Macaulay magnanimity Maidstone ment mighty Milton mind moral murderer nation never noble occasion Oliver Cromwell Parliament patriotic peace peril persons Petition of Right piety political popular Presbyterian princes principles Protector public enemy punishment Puritans Rebellion reform Regicides reign religion religious Revolution Royalists ruler says Scotland sentiment soul spirit sublime sword things Thomas Carlyle throne tion toleration traitors trial truth tyranny tyrant victory writers
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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.