Oliver CromwellLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 319 páginas |
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... history that he ignored --- though the race against which his sword was drawn was one singularly retentive of the tradition of days long - ago . It was the occurrences which had passed in his own life - time which he misinterpreted ...
... history that he ignored --- though the race against which his sword was drawn was one singularly retentive of the tradition of days long - ago . It was the occurrences which had passed in his own life - time which he misinterpreted ...
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... history of the next twelve months in Scotland is the attempt to convert a clerical into a national resist- ance . To Cromwell , an attempt to force England into political conformity with Scotland was as much to be resisted as an attempt ...
... history of the next twelve months in Scotland is the attempt to convert a clerical into a national resist- ance . To Cromwell , an attempt to force England into political conformity with Scotland was as much to be resisted as an attempt ...
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... History has pronounced in favour of the view taken by Oliver's antagonists . The reliance on mili- tary power in which he had found his refuge did more than all other facts put together to establish , for good or for evil , a reliance ...
... History has pronounced in favour of the view taken by Oliver's antagonists . The reliance on mili- tary power in which he had found his refuge did more than all other facts put together to establish , for good or for evil , a reliance ...
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... history worth considering are the occupation of Calais in the middle ages , and of Gibraltar in modern times . It is idle to speculate whether , if Dunkirk had not been surrendered amicably to France by Charles II . , it would have ...
... history worth considering are the occupation of Calais in the middle ages , and of Gibraltar in modern times . It is idle to speculate whether , if Dunkirk had not been surrendered amicably to France by Charles II . , it would have ...
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... history of Europe will now deny . Isolated instances indeed there were - and there were likely to be more of the persecution of Protestants by Roman Catholic Governments , but the tendency to form European alliances on the basis of ...
... history of Europe will now deny . Isolated instances indeed there were - and there were likely to be more of the persecution of Protestants by Roman Catholic Governments , but the tendency to form European alliances on the basis of ...
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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...
Página 12 - I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish ; his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour.
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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