Oliver CromwellLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 319 páginas |
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... command the trained bands south of the Trent for the defence of the kingdom , a power which was not to determine at the King's pleasure , but to continue till Parliament should take further order . His Cromwell was evidently for strong ...
... command the trained bands south of the Trent for the defence of the kingdom , a power which was not to determine at the King's pleasure , but to continue till Parliament should take further order . His Cromwell was evidently for strong ...
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... command to create a Parliamentary army , Cromwell accepted a commission to raise a troop of arquebusiers - the light horse of the day - in his own county . He can have had no difficulty in finding recruits , especially as his popularity ...
... command to create a Parliamentary army , Cromwell accepted a commission to raise a troop of arquebusiers - the light horse of the day - in his own county . He can have had no difficulty in finding recruits , especially as his popularity ...
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... commands were issued . The very vivid- ness of his apprehension of the supernatural enabled him to pass rapidly without any sense of incongruity from religious exhortations to the practical satisfaction of the demands of the material ...
... commands were issued . The very vivid- ness of his apprehension of the supernatural enabled him to pass rapidly without any sense of incongruity from religious exhortations to the practical satisfaction of the demands of the material ...
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... command of the Earl of Newcastle . By the middle of the year , the Parliamentary armies were threatened with ruin on almost every side . The one conspicuous exception to these tales of disaster was found in the news from the Eastern ...
... command of the Earl of Newcastle . By the middle of the year , the Parliamentary armies were threatened with ruin on almost every side . The one conspicuous exception to these tales of disaster was found in the news from the Eastern ...
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... command swarmed with enthusiasts who spent their leisure in preaching and arguing on the most abstruse points of divinity , agreeing in nothing except that argument was to be met by argument alone . Their iron discipline and their ...
... command swarmed with enthusiasts who spent their leisure in preaching and arguing on the most abstruse points of divinity , agreeing in nothing except that argument was to be met by argument alone . Their iron discipline and their ...
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