Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Oliver Cromwell. By John ForsterLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1838 |
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28. oldal
... party who did thereby magnify his conversion making him thus dear and precious unto God , that I was obliged to mention them . " These coarse details are given here in the persuasion , that they may represent , making allowance for the ...
... party who did thereby magnify his conversion making him thus dear and precious unto God , that I was obliged to mention them . " These coarse details are given here in the persuasion , that they may represent , making allowance for the ...
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... party , irresistible and unyielding for life or death - the " His house , " says a writer in the " Biographica Britannica , " " became the retreat of the persecuted nonconformist teachers ; and they show a building behind it which ...
... party , irresistible and unyielding for life or death - the " His house , " says a writer in the " Biographica Britannica , " " became the retreat of the persecuted nonconformist teachers ; and they show a building behind it which ...
68. oldal
... party , and by the direction of the committee , sitting covered . Cromwell ( who had never before been heard to speak in the house of commons ) ordered the wit- nesses and petitioners in the method of the proceeding ; and seconded , and ...
... party , and by the direction of the committee , sitting covered . Cromwell ( who had never before been heard to speak in the house of commons ) ordered the wit- nesses and petitioners in the method of the proceeding ; and seconded , and ...
69. oldal
... party were . " I can tell you , sirs , " answered Cromwell abruptly as he passed on , " I can tell you what I would not have , if I cannot what I would . " The words no doubt in truth expressed at that particular time the condition of ...
... party were . " I can tell you , sirs , " answered Cromwell abruptly as he passed on , " I can tell you what I would not have , if I cannot what I would . " The words no doubt in truth expressed at that particular time the condition of ...
73. oldal
... party . It is observable as much in his hatred to old Vane and the queen's set of courtiers , as in his more distinct as- sertions . Another letter is written from " ' Newmarket , this 10th of March , 1642 , " while staying there with ...
... party . It is observable as much in his hatred to old Vane and the queen's set of courtiers , as in his more distinct as- sertions . Another letter is written from " ' Newmarket , this 10th of March , 1642 , " while staying there with ...
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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.