Oliver CromwellLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 319 páginas |
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... officers who might be relied on - in one case to strike for the Crown , in the other case to strike for the Commons . Pym , who was leading his party in the House with consummate dexterity , seized the opportunity of ask- ing , not ...
... officers who might be relied on - in one case to strike for the Crown , in the other case to strike for the Commons . Pym , who was leading his party in the House with consummate dexterity , seized the opportunity of ask- ing , not ...
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... officer requires to know when to draw rein , as well as when to charge , and to subordinate the conduct of the attack in which he is personally engaged to the needs of the army as a whole . Many months were to pass away before Cromwell ...
... officer requires to know when to draw rein , as well as when to charge , and to subordinate the conduct of the attack in which he is personally engaged to the needs of the army as a whole . Many months were to pass away before Cromwell ...
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... officers for their military efficiency , and not for their Presbyterian opinions ? The Major- General of Manchester's army - Crawford , a Scot of the narrowest Presbyterian type - had objected to the promotion of an officer named Packer ...
... officers for their military efficiency , and not for their Presbyterian opinions ? The Major- General of Manchester's army - Crawford , a Scot of the narrowest Presbyterian type - had objected to the promotion of an officer named Packer ...
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... officers from the indignity of tendering the resignation of their commissions , a new Self - Denying Ordinance was passed on April 3 , by which members of either House were discharged from their military or civil posts within forty days ...
... officers from the indignity of tendering the resignation of their commissions , a new Self - Denying Ordinance was passed on April 3 , by which members of either House were discharged from their military or civil posts within forty days ...
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... officers ; and here at least Cromwell's views had full scope . On the mere ground that it was desirable to place command in the hands of those who were most strenuous in the prose- cution of the war , the preference was certain to be ...
... officers ; and here at least Cromwell's views had full scope . On the mere ground that it was desirable to place command in the hands of those who were most strenuous in the prose- cution of the war , the preference was certain to be ...
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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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