Oliver CromwellLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 319 páginas |
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... Scot- land with the intention of bringing up a Scottish army to his support against the Parliament at Westminster strengthened the hands of the party of Parliamentary supremacy , and left its leaders disinclined to pursue their ...
... Scot- land with the intention of bringing up a Scottish army to his support against the Parliament at Westminster strengthened the hands of the party of Parliamentary supremacy , and left its leaders disinclined to pursue their ...
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... Scottish colonists who had usurped their lands . The rising took the form of outrage and massacre , calculated to arouse a spirit of vengeance in England , even if report had not outrun the truth - much more when the horrible tale was ...
... Scottish colonists who had usurped their lands . The rising took the form of outrage and massacre , calculated to arouse a spirit of vengeance in England , even if report had not outrun the truth - much more when the horrible tale was ...
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... Scot- land to his side was less successful . The predominant party at Edinburgh was that led by the Marquis of ... Scottish nobility , would not only have made short work of Argyle's political dictatorship , but would have taken good ...
... Scot- land to his side was less successful . The predominant party at Edinburgh was that led by the Marquis of ... Scottish nobility , would not only have made short work of Argyle's political dictatorship , but would have taken good ...
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... Scottish armed assistance , simply because that assistance could be had on no other terms . alliance with the Scots was the last work of Pym , who died before the Scottish army , the aid of which he had so dearly purchased , crossed the ...
... Scottish armed assistance , simply because that assistance could be had on no other terms . alliance with the Scots was the last work of Pym , who died before the Scottish army , the aid of which he had so dearly purchased , crossed the ...
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... Scot of ! the narrowest Presbyterian type - had objected to the promotion of an officer named Packer , who was an Anabaptist . " Admit he be , " wrote Cromwell in reply , The " shall that render him incapable to serve the public KING ...
... Scot of ! the narrowest Presbyterian type - had objected to the promotion of an officer named Packer , who was an Anabaptist . " Admit he be , " wrote Cromwell in reply , The " shall that render him incapable to serve the public KING ...
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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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