Oliver CromwellLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 319 páginas |
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... position in life brought him into contact with all classes of society . What powers and capacities this infant - or indeed any other infant - may have derived from this or the other ancestor , is a mystery too deep for human knowledge ...
... position in life brought him into contact with all classes of society . What powers and capacities this infant - or indeed any other infant - may have derived from this or the other ancestor , is a mystery too deep for human knowledge ...
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... position . As the little Oliver grew up , he had before his eyes the types of the future Cavalier and Roundhead in his own family . So far as parental influence could decide the question , there could be no doubt on which side the young ...
... position . As the little Oliver grew up , he had before his eyes the types of the future Cavalier and Roundhead in his own family . So far as parental influence could decide the question , there could be no doubt on which side the young ...
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... position . In life — and above all in political life — it is not possible to satisfy those who expect the actions of any man to be absolutely consistent . Later gener- ations may be convinced not only that Charles was sincere in ...
... position . In life — and above all in political life — it is not possible to satisfy those who expect the actions of any man to be absolutely consistent . Later gener- ations may be convinced not only that Charles was sincere in ...
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... position which he could never have reached merely through his cousinship with Hampden and St. John . That he concurred in the destruction of the special courts which had fortified the Crown in the Tudor period , and in the prosecution ...
... position which he could never have reached merely through his cousinship with Hampden and St. John . That he concurred in the destruction of the special courts which had fortified the Crown in the Tudor period , and in the prosecution ...
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... position to be driven into , and yet , the feeling of the time being what it was , it is hard to see that any remedy could be found . Before Charles returned from Scotland , which he had visited in the vain expectation of bringing back ...
... position to be driven into , and yet , the feeling of the time being what it was , it is hard to see that any remedy could be found . Before Charles returned from Scotland , which he had visited in the vain expectation of bringing back ...
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