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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... horses and to his desire to encourage men of learning . It may fairly be argued that his tastes in either direction must have been acquired in youth . One piece of evidence has indeed been put forward against Cromwell . On the register ...
... horses and to his desire to encourage men of learning . It may fairly be argued that his tastes in either direction must have been acquired in youth . One piece of evidence has indeed been put forward against Cromwell . On the register ...
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... horse of the day - in his own county . He can have had no difficulty in finding recruits , especially as his popularity in the fen - land had been , if possible , in- creased by his conduct in a committee held in the preceding summer ...
... horse of the day - in his own county . He can have had no difficulty in finding recruits , especially as his popularity in the fen - land had been , if possible , in- creased by his conduct in a committee held in the preceding summer ...
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... horse had become manifest , " are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters , and such kind of fellows ; and their troops are gentlemen's sons and persons of quality . Do you think the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ...
... horse had become manifest , " are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters , and such kind of fellows ; and their troops are gentlemen's sons and persons of quality . Do you think the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ...
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... horse . So unquestioned was the inferiority of infantry , that unless the horsemen who gathered round Charles's standard when it was dis- played on the Castle Hill at Nottingham could be overpowered , the resistance of the Parliamentary ...
... horse . So unquestioned was the inferiority of infantry , that unless the horsemen who gathered round Charles's standard when it was dis- played on the Castle Hill at Nottingham could be overpowered , the resistance of the Parliamentary ...
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... horse had ceased to trouble it . At all events , he took his share in the indispensable service rendered by the little force of cavalry remaining at Essex's disposal , when in the opposing ranks there was no cavalry at all . It was the ...
... horse had ceased to trouble it . At all events , he took his share in the indispensable service rendered by the little force of cavalry remaining at Essex's disposal , when in the opposing ranks there was no cavalry at all . It was the ...
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