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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... 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 no other , did his obliga- tions to his fellow ...
... 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 no other , did his obliga- tions to his fellow ...
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... word for it another time . If the Re- monstrance had been rejected , I would have sold all I had the next morning , and never have seen England any more ; and I know there are many other honest men of the same resolution . " There was ...
... word for it another time . If the Re- monstrance had been rejected , I would have sold all I had the next morning , and never have seen England any more ; and I know there are many other honest men of the same resolution . " There was ...
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... words - to trust in God and keep their powder dry . Yet , apocryphal as is the anecdote , it well represents the spirit in which Cromwell's commands were issued . The very vivid- ness of his apprehension of the supernatural enabled him ...
... words - to trust in God and keep their powder dry . Yet , apocryphal as is the anecdote , it well represents the spirit in which Cromwell's commands were issued . The very vivid- ness of his apprehension of the supernatural enabled him ...
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... words , declaring that religion was to be re- formed in England according to the Word of God , as well as by the example of the best reformed Churches , In this form the Covenant was brought back to West- minster , and in this form it ...
... words , declaring that religion was to be re- formed in England according to the Word of God , as well as by the example of the best reformed Churches , In this form the Covenant was brought back to West- minster , and in this form it ...
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... 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.
... 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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