The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the Revolution in 1688, Volumen8Christie & Son; Baldwin & Company; Sharpe & Son; Akerman; Smith & Company ... [and 40 others], 1819 |
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... conducted by inexperienced com- manders , afforded success to every bold and sudden un- dertaking . After taking Winchester and Chichester , he advanced towards Gloucester , which was in a manner blockaded by lord Herbert , who had ...
... conducted by inexperienced com- manders , afforded success to every bold and sudden un- dertaking . After taking Winchester and Chichester , he advanced towards Gloucester , which was in a manner blockaded by lord Herbert , who had ...
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... conducting war , and it was by favour of law that the train - bands were raised in Cornwall ; it appeared that those maxims were now pre- judicial to the royal party . These troops could not le- gally , without their own consent , be ...
... conducting war , and it was by favour of law that the train - bands were raised in Cornwall ; it appeared that those maxims were now pre- judicial to the royal party . These troops could not le- gally , without their own consent , be ...
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... conducted with equal courage , and almost with equal loss , but with better success . One party , led by lord Grandison , was indeed beaten off , and the commander himself mor- tally wounded : another , conducted by colonel Bellasis ...
... conducted with equal courage , and almost with equal loss , but with better success . One party , led by lord Grandison , was indeed beaten off , and the commander himself mor- tally wounded : another , conducted by colonel Bellasis ...
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... conduct . The answer from the city was in these words : " We , the inhabitants , magis- trates , officers and soldiers , within the garrison of Glou- cester , unto his majesty's gracious message return this humble answer : that we do ...
... conduct . The answer from the city was in these words : " We , the inhabitants , magis- trates , officers and soldiers , within the garrison of Glou- cester , unto his majesty's gracious message return this humble answer : that we do ...
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... and Leicester ; and though inferior in cavalry , yet by the mere force of conduct and discipline , he passed over those open champaign countries , and defended himself from the enemy's 32 HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN . CH . LVI .
... and Leicester ; and though inferior in cavalry , yet by the mere force of conduct and discipline , he passed over those open champaign countries , and defended himself from the enemy's 32 HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN . CH . LVI .
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Página 172 - Mark, child! what I say: They will cut off my head! and perhaps make thee a king: But mark what I say, thou must not be a king, as long as thy brothers Charles and James are alive. They will cut off thy brothers' heads, when they can catch them! And thy head too they will cut off at last! Therefore, I charge thee, do not be made a king by them!
Página 173 - It will soon carry you a great way. It will carry you from earth to heaven, and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.
Página 9 - I do promise, in the presence of Almighty God, and as I hope for his blessing and protection, that I will, to the utmost of my power, defend and maintain the true reformed protestant religion, established in the church of England, and, by the grace of God, in the same will live and die.
Página 316 - He placed his soldiers in the streets which led to Westminster Hall. When the speaker came in his coach, he ordered the horses to be turned, and very civilly conducted him home. The other members were in like manner intercepted. And the two regiments in Palace-yard, observing that they were exposed to derision, peaceably retired to their quarters. A little before this bold enterprise, a solemn fast had been kept by the army; and it is remarked, that this ceremony was the usual prelude to every signal...
Página 241 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Página 208 - Lord, vouchsafe yet to touch the obdurate heart of this proud incorrigible sinner, this wicked, perjured, traitorous, and profane person, who refuses to hearken to the voice of thy kirk...
Página 86 - Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of GREAT MAN is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced. There was in Scotland another party, who professing equal attachment to the king's service, pretended only to differ with Montrose about the means of attaining the same end; and of that party, Duke Hamilton was the leader. This nobleman had cause to be extremely devoted to the king, not only by reason of the...
Página 301 - ... with equal facility both the riches of the south and the poverty of the north; to be feared and courted by all foreign princes, and adopted a brother...
Página 64 - ... authority of the priestly office : the fanaticism of the independents, exalted to a higher pitch, abolished ecclesiastical government, disdained creeds and systems, neglected every ceremony, and confounded all ranks and orders. The soldier, the merchant, the mechanic, indulging the fervours of zeal, and guided by the illapses of the spirit, resigned himself to an inward and superior direction, and was consecrated, in a manner, by an immediate intercourse and communication with heaven.
Página 241 - You are no longer a parliament : I tell you, you are no longer a parliament. The Lord has done with you : he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work." Sir Harry Vane exclaiming against this proceeding, he cried with a loud voice, " O! sir Harry Vane, sir Harry Vane! the Lord deliver me from sir Harry Vane !" Taking hold of Martin by the cloak, " Thou art a whore-master,