Oliver CromwellLongmans, Green, 1909 - 319 páginas This volume is an extensive biography of Oliver Cromwell, but according to its preface, the author suggests that it is a history. Gardiner makes a point to distinguish a history with a biographical viewpoint from that of a strict biography. |
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... financial support should be accorded to its commander . Voluntary contributions were still the backbone of the resources of Parliament , though a system of forced payments was being gradually estab- lished . " Lay not , " wrote Cromwell ...
... financial support should be accorded to its commander . Voluntary contributions were still the backbone of the resources of Parliament , though a system of forced payments was being gradually estab- lished . " Lay not , " wrote Cromwell ...
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... financial basis . Some time before the last vote was taken , the principal officers , under Lambert's leadership , had had under consideration a plan of a written constitution ناه · in which the executive power was to be strengthened ...
... financial basis . Some time before the last vote was taken , the principal officers , under Lambert's leadership , had had under consideration a plan of a written constitution ناه · in which the executive power was to be strengthened ...
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... financial arrangements , through which Parliaments usually make their way to power , were settled in such a way as to debar the elected House from obtaining even indirect control . It is true that the Instrument started with the ...
... financial arrangements , through which Parliaments usually make their way to power , were settled in such a way as to debar the elected House from obtaining even indirect control . It is true that the Instrument started with the ...
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... financial control which spells sovereignty . Cromwell's whole soul recoiled from the acceptance of a scheme which would render nugatory the pro- posed constitutional restrictions of Parliamentary omnipotence , by enabling Parliament ...
... financial control which spells sovereignty . Cromwell's whole soul recoiled from the acceptance of a scheme which would render nugatory the pro- posed constitutional restrictions of Parliamentary omnipotence , by enabling Parliament ...
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... to deny that he was perfectly in the right in hesitating to hand over supreme power to a Parliament uncontrolled by the nation , and capable of using its financial authority to demolish any system 246 OLIVER CROMWELL .
... to deny that he was perfectly in the right in hesitating to hand over supreme power to a Parliament uncontrolled by the nation , and capable of using its financial authority to demolish any system 246 OLIVER CROMWELL .
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