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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... favour or disfavour never left him , and he was able , in the days of his greatness , to point unhesitatingly to the results of Naseby and Worcester as evidence that God Himself approved of the victorious cause . In 1616 Cromwell ...
... favour or disfavour never left him , and he was able , in the days of his greatness , to point unhesitatingly to the results of Naseby and Worcester as evidence that God Himself approved of the victorious cause . In 1616 Cromwell ...
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... in establishing that special form of ecclesiastical government which she favoured . Yet though the clergy had ceased to cry out for the super- session of episcopacy by the Presbyterian discipline , the bulk 14 OLIVER CROMWELL .
... in establishing that special form of ecclesiastical government which she favoured . Yet though the clergy had ceased to cry out for the super- session of episcopacy by the Presbyterian discipline , the bulk 14 OLIVER CROMWELL .
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... favour . Important as Charles's own character - with its love of shifts and evasions — was in deciding the issue , it must not be forgotten that the crisis arose from a circumstance common to all revolutions . When a considerable change ...
... favour . Important as Charles's own character - with its love of shifts and evasions — was in deciding the issue , it must not be forgotten that the crisis arose from a circumstance common to all revolutions . When a considerable change ...
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... favour of the Royalist gentry , whose very nickname of ' cavaliers ' was a presage of victory , and who were not only themselves familiar with horseman- ship from their youth up , but had at their disposal the grooms and the huntsmen ...
... favour of the Royalist gentry , whose very nickname of ' cavaliers ' was a presage of victory , and who were not only themselves familiar with horseman- ship from their youth up , but had at their disposal the grooms and the huntsmen ...
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... led to an attack on the English nobility , amongst whom the sects found scant favour . He hoped , he said in words long afterwards remembered against him , to ' live to see never a nobleman in England ' . He is KING AND PARLIAMENT . 47.
... led to an attack on the English nobility , amongst whom the sects found scant favour . He hoped , he said in words long afterwards remembered against him , to ' live to see never a nobleman in England ' . He is KING AND PARLIAMENT . 47.
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