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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... 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 matriculated at Sidney ...
... 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 matriculated at Sidney ...
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... never attained to proficiency as a scholar , he by no means neglected the authorised studies of the place . Much as opinion has differed on every other point in his character , there was never any doubt as to his love of horses and to ...
... never attained to proficiency as a scholar , he by no means neglected the authorised studies of the place . Much as opinion has differed on every other point in his character , there was never any doubt as to his love of horses and to ...
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... never actually in Prynne's service at all - was no other than John Lilburne , who was such a thorn in the flesh to Cromwell in later years . In under- taking the defence of the man who had been sentenced to scourge and imprisonment for ...
... never actually in Prynne's service at all - was no other than John Lilburne , who was such a thorn in the flesh to Cromwell in later years . In under- taking the defence of the man who had been sentenced to scourge and imprisonment for ...
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... of the Bill for the revival of annual Parliaments , which , by a subsequent compromise , was ultimately converted into a Triennial Act ordaining " that there should never again be an intermission of 16 OLIVER CROMWELL .
... of the Bill for the revival of annual Parliaments , which , by a subsequent compromise , was ultimately converted into a Triennial Act ordaining " that there should never again be an intermission of 16 OLIVER CROMWELL .
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... never have reached merely through his cousinship with Hampden and St. John . That he concurred in the destruction of the special courts which had fortified the Crown in the Tudor period , and in the prosecution of Strafford , needs no ...
... never have reached merely through his cousinship with Hampden and St. John . That he concurred in the destruction of the special courts which had fortified the Crown in the Tudor period , and in the prosecution of Strafford , needs no ...
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