Oliver CromwellLongmans, Green, 1909 - 319 páginas This volume is an extensive biography of Oliver Cromwell, but according to its preface, the author suggests that it is a history. Gardiner makes a point to distinguish a history with a biographical viewpoint from that of a strict biography. |
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... mind on the loop - hole offered by Vane's amendment . cause of religious liberty appealed to him on practical grounds . How was he to fight the enemy , unless he could choose his officers for their military efficiency , and not for ...
... mind on the loop - hole offered by Vane's amendment . cause of religious liberty appealed to him on practical grounds . How was he to fight the enemy , unless he could choose his officers for their military efficiency , and not for ...
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... mind . Of his four sons , two had already passed away : -Robert , leaving behind him a memory of unusual piety , had died in his school- boy days ; whilst Oliver , who had charged and fled at Edgehill had lately succumbed to small - pox ...
... mind . Of his four sons , two had already passed away : -Robert , leaving behind him a memory of unusual piety , had died in his school- boy days ; whilst Oliver , who had charged and fled at Edgehill had lately succumbed to small - pox ...
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... mind with the consequences of a problematical Royalist victory . It was enough for him to grasp the actual situation . It is true that , at this time , he had not got beyond the position from which the whole of the Parliamentary party ...
... mind with the consequences of a problematical Royalist victory . It was enough for him to grasp the actual situation . It is true that , at this time , he had not got beyond the position from which the whole of the Parliamentary party ...
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... mind in pushing on an ordin- ance for a new model of the army , from which it would be easy to exclude peers , whether the Self - Denying Ordinance were passed or no . On January 21 the Commons named Fairfax as General and Skippon as ...
... mind in pushing on an ordin- ance for a new model of the army , from which it would be easy to exclude peers , whether the Self - Denying Ordinance were passed or no . On January 21 the Commons named Fairfax as General and Skippon as ...
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... minds could recognise as acceptable , and if the war was to be continued , what prospect was there of success under the old conditions ? Nevertheless , the creation of the New Model was , in the main , Cromwell's work . Men are led by ...
... minds could recognise as acceptable , and if the war was to be continued , what prospect was there of success under the old conditions ? Nevertheless , the creation of the New Model was , in the main , Cromwell's work . Men are led by ...
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