Oliver CromwellLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 319 páginas |
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... victory gained by Charles would not only expose those who had dared to make war on him to the hideous penalties of the law of treason— but would enable him to measure the terms of sub- mission by his own resolves . If Manchester had had ...
... victory gained by Charles would not only expose those who had dared to make war on him to the hideous penalties of the law of treason— but would enable him to measure the terms of sub- mission by his own resolves . If Manchester had had ...
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... 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 had started at the beginning of the war - the position ...
... 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 had started at the beginning of the war - the position ...
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... victory , its movements must be guided , not by politicians at Westminster , but by the general in the field . The first act of the Com- mittee was to send Fairfax with eleven thousand men to the relief of Taunton , where Blake , who ...
... victory , its movements must be guided , not by politicians at Westminster , but by the general in the field . The first act of the Com- mittee was to send Fairfax with eleven thousand men to the relief of Taunton , where Blake , who ...
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... victory was beyond dispute . Cromwell , as was his usual habit , ascribed this success to Divine aid . " I can say this of Naseby , " he wrote , " that when I saw the enemy draw up and march in gallant order towards us , and we a 62 ...
... victory was beyond dispute . Cromwell , as was his usual habit , ascribed this success to Divine aid . " I can say this of Naseby , " he wrote , " that when I saw the enemy draw up and march in gallant order towards us , and we a 62 ...
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... victory , be- cause God would , by things that are not , bring to naught things that are , of which I had great assurance -and God did it . " No doubt , as has been said , Cromwell omitted to mention that the Parliamentary army had ...
... victory , be- cause God would , by things that are not , bring to naught things that are , of which I had great assurance -and God did it . " No doubt , as has been said , Cromwell omitted to mention that the Parliamentary army had ...
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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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