Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Oliver Cromwell. By John ForsterLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1838 |
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... parliament ; and on the morrow after , they had the mayor of London , the aldermen , and all their wives to dinner and on the Friday they brake it up as is aforesaid . " Sir Rich , and the five challengers had then each of them , as a ...
... parliament ; and on the morrow after , they had the mayor of London , the aldermen , and all their wives to dinner and on the Friday they brake it up as is aforesaid . " Sir Rich , and the five challengers had then each of them , as a ...
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... parliaments by the electors of that borough , but he appears to have experienced only enough of that sort of public life to conceive disgust to it , since all the duties he afterwards discharged were confined to his native town , in ...
... parliaments by the electors of that borough , but he appears to have experienced only enough of that sort of public life to conceive disgust to it , since all the duties he afterwards discharged were confined to his native town , in ...
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... parliament had assigned to him , to take possession of Whitehall , which he assigned to himself , adds , that " his wife seemed at first unwilling to remove thither , though afterwards she became better satisfied with her grandeur ...
... parliament had assigned to him , to take possession of Whitehall , which he assigned to himself , adds , that " his wife seemed at first unwilling to remove thither , though afterwards she became better satisfied with her grandeur ...
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... parliament to make a suit- able settlement upon her , at a time when the Cromwellian interest was no more . It was grateful in them , and honourable to her . " Perceiving the return of the king , " however , Noble tells us , " would ...
... parliament to make a suit- able settlement upon her , at a time when the Cromwellian interest was no more . It was grateful in them , and honourable to her . " Perceiving the return of the king , " however , Noble tells us , " would ...
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... parliament , and belonged to the delinquent loyalists ; who , at the restoration , would naturally reclaim what had been illegally and forcibly taken from them . The 8000l . per ann . , settled upon her by the parliament , was never ...
... parliament , and belonged to the delinquent loyalists ; who , at the restoration , would naturally reclaim what had been illegally and forcibly taken from them . The 8000l . per ann . , settled upon her by the parliament , was never ...
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67. oldal - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom 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...
284. oldal - The Lord at thy right hand: Shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies : He shall wound the heads over many countries.
37. oldal - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
198. oldal - For what do the enemy say? Nay, what do many say that were friends at the beginning of the Parliament ? Even this, that the members of both houses have got great places and commands, and the sword into their hands ; and, what by interest in Parliament, what by power in the army, will perpetually continue themselves in grandeur, and not permit the war speedily to end, lest their own power should determine with it.
118. oldal - Byron's regiment, then advancing upon the enemy, who had lined the hedges on both sides with musketeers ; from whence he was shot with a musket in the lower part of the belly ; and in the instant falling from his horse, his body was not found till the next morning...
117. oldal - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
214. oldal - 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...
65. oldal - This done, he makes through a number of people towards his coach, all gazing, no man capping to him, before whom that morning the greatest of England would have stood discovered, all crying. What is the matter ? he said, A small matter, I warrant you...
43. oldal - And who that had beheld such a bankrupt, beggarly fellow as Cromwell, first entering the Parliament House, with a threadbare, torn cloak and greasy hat (and, perhaps, neither of them paid for), could have suspected that, in the space of so few years he should, by the murder of one king and the banishment of another, ascend the throne, be invested in the royal robes, and want nothing of the state of a king but the changing of his hat into a crown...
84. oldal - ... that if the Remonstrance had been rejected he would have sold all he had the next morning, and never have seen England / more ; and he knew there were many other honest men of the same resolution.