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Before long both classes of Roman Catholic Irishmen, the Celtic peasants of the
North and the Anglo-Irish gentry of the South, were united in armed resistance to
the English Government. It was a foregone conclusion that an attempt to ...
Before long both classes of Roman Catholic Irishmen, the Celtic peasants of the
North and the Anglo-Irish gentry of the South, were united in armed resistance to
the English Government. It was a foregone conclusion that an attempt to ...
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In the constitutional by-play which followed — the question of the Bishops' protest
and the resistance to the attempt on the five members — Cromwell took no
prominent part, though his motion for an address to the King, asking him to
remove ...
In the constitutional by-play which followed — the question of the Bishops' protest
and the resistance to the attempt on the five members — Cromwell took no
prominent part, though his motion for an address to the King, asking him to
remove ...
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So unquestioned was the inferiority of infantry, that unless the horsemen who
gathered round Charles's standard when it was displayed on the Castle Hill at
Nottingham could be overpowered, the resistance of the Parliamentary army
could ...
So unquestioned was the inferiority of infantry, that unless the horsemen who
gathered round Charles's standard when it was displayed on the Castle Hill at
Nottingham could be overpowered, the resistance of the Parliamentary army
could ...
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Every man in the three kingdoms, including the King himself, was to be bound to
swear to the observance of the Covenant Such a demand naturally met with stern
resistance. "There are three things," replied Charles, " I will not part with — the ...
Every man in the three kingdoms, including the King himself, was to be bound to
swear to the observance of the Covenant Such a demand naturally met with stern
resistance. "There are three things," replied Charles, " I will not part with — the ...
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Commons there was a small group of Erastian lawyers, with the learned Selden
at their head, which was strong enough to carry Parliament with it in resistance to
the imposition upon England of a Scottish Presby- terianism — that is to say, ...
Commons there was a small group of Erastian lawyers, with the learned Selden
at their head, which was strong enough to carry Parliament with it in resistance to
the imposition upon England of a Scottish Presby- terianism — that is to say, ...
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Página 276 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Página 200 - Hast reared God's trophies, and his work pursued ; While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath...
Página 271 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Página 64 - Honest men served you faithfully in this action. Sir, they are trusty; I beseech you, in the name of God, not to discourage them. I wish this action may beget thankfulness and humility in all that are concerned in it. He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience, and you for the liberty he fights for.
Página 314 - Then," exclaimed the dying man, " I am safe ; for I know that I was once in grace." He then turned round, and prayed aloud "Lord," he said, "though I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in covenant with Thee through grace ; and I may, I will, come to Thee, for thy people ! Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service; and many of them have set too high a value upon me, though others wish, and would be glad of my death ; but, Lord, however...
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Página 44 - Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies.
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Oliver Cromwell |
| Autor | Samuel Rawson Gardiner |
| Editor | Longmans, Green, and Company, 1901 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 4 Oct. 2007 |
| Largo | 319 páginas |
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