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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... CROMWELL'S PLACE IN HISTORY . Founded on Six Lectures delivered at Oxford . Crown 8vo , 3s . 6d . OLIVER CROMWELL . With Frontispiece . Crown 8vo , 5s . net . WHAT GUNPOWDER PLOT WAS : a Reply to Father Gerard . With 8 Illustrations and ...
... CROMWELL'S PLACE IN HISTORY . Founded on Six Lectures delivered at Oxford . Crown 8vo , 3s . 6d . OLIVER CROMWELL . With Frontispiece . Crown 8vo , 5s . net . WHAT GUNPOWDER PLOT WAS : a Reply to Father Gerard . With 8 Illustrations and ...
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... Cromwell's public life is set forth in these words : his aim being : first , to be himself an honest man ; secondly , to serve God and the people of God ; and thirdly , to fulfil his duty to the Common- wealth . In this order , and in ...
... Cromwell's public life is set forth in these words : his aim being : first , to be himself an honest man ; secondly , to serve God and the people of God ; and thirdly , to fulfil his duty to the Common- wealth . In this order , and in ...
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... Cromwell's early life for some years after his marriage we have little positive information . His public career was opened by his election in 1628 to sit for Huntingdon in the Parliament which insisted on the Petition of Right . Though ...
... Cromwell's early life for some years after his marriage we have little positive information . His public career was opened by his election in 1628 to sit for Huntingdon in the Parliament which insisted on the Petition of Right . Though ...
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... Cromwell was wallowing in revolting profligacy , and the charge may seem to find some support from his own language in a subsequent letter to his cousin , Mrs. St. John : " You know , " he wrote , " what my manner of life hath been . Oh ...
... Cromwell was wallowing in revolting profligacy , and the charge may seem to find some support from his own language in a subsequent letter to his cousin , Mrs. St. John : " You know , " he wrote , " what my manner of life hath been . Oh ...
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... Cromwell's nature was too large , and his character too strong , to allow him long to associate himself with the bigots of his age . His Puritanism - if not as univer- \ sally sympathetic as a modern philosopher might wish -was moral ...
... Cromwell's nature was too large , and his character too strong , to allow him long to associate himself with the bigots of his age . His Puritanism - if not as univer- \ sally sympathetic as a modern philosopher might wish -was moral ...
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