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 ... Cromwell would have been selected by his neighbours , to whom every action of his life had been laid open , unless ...
... Cromwell's early life for some years after his marriage we have little positive information . His public career was ... Cromwell would have been selected by his neighbours , to whom every action of his life had been laid open , unless ...
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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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... Cromwell made his first speech , if so short an utterance can be dignified by that name . " Dr. Beard , " he informed the House , " told him that one Dr. Alablaster did at the Spital preach in a sermon tenets of Popery , and Beard being ...
... Cromwell made his first speech , if so short an utterance can be dignified by that name . " Dr. Beard , " he informed the House , " told him that one Dr. Alablaster did at the Spital preach in a sermon tenets of Popery , and Beard being ...
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