Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and of His Sons, Richard and Henry: Illustrated by Original Letters and Other Family PapersLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821 Memoirs of the protector, Oliver Cromwell, and of his sons, Richard and Henry. |
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... forces Colonel Greaves to fly , whom else they threatened to kill , for no man's life must stand in their way ( murder being no crime in the visible saints ) ; carries away His Majesty and the commissioners that attend him prisoners ...
... forces Colonel Greaves to fly , whom else they threatened to kill , for no man's life must stand in their way ( murder being no crime in the visible saints ) ; carries away His Majesty and the commissioners that attend him prisoners ...
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... force the King from thence ; whereupon he had sent Colonel Whalley's regiment to meet the King : that he ( the General ) protested that his remove was without his consent , or of the officers about him , and without their desire or ...
... force the King from thence ; whereupon he had sent Colonel Whalley's regiment to meet the King : that he ( the General ) protested that his remove was without his consent , or of the officers about him , and without their desire or ...
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... forces designed , both by sea and land , to secure his person : that His Majesty replied , that he would have a care of that time enough , and that he was to conclude with the Scots before he left the kingdom ; because , from their ...
... forces designed , both by sea and land , to secure his person : that His Majesty replied , that he would have a care of that time enough , and that he was to conclude with the Scots before he left the kingdom ; because , from their ...
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... forces in Kent and Essex , and of the Scots army also , which consisted of twenty - four thousand men : all which forces were the result of the treaty , which appeared to him ( Sir John ) , if it had been sooner dispatched , to have ...
... forces in Kent and Essex , and of the Scots army also , which consisted of twenty - four thousand men : all which forces were the result of the treaty , which appeared to him ( Sir John ) , if it had been sooner dispatched , to have ...
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... force , which might have received a fatal repulse ; but that some good compromise might have been made by the interposition of the King . But this schism , adds His Lordship , carried all the reputation and authority to the army , and ...
... force , which might have received a fatal repulse ; but that some good compromise might have been made by the interposition of the King . But this schism , adds His Lordship , carried all the reputation and authority to the army , and ...
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Seite 425 - There needs no more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking, an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented...
Seite 364 - Lord, 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...
Seite 295 - Is there not yet upon the spirits of men a strange itch? Nothing will satisfy them, unless they can put their finger upon their brethren's consciences, to pinch them there.
Seite 629 - ... we do declare a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Seite 299 - the cunning of the Lord Protector" — I take it to myself — "it was the craft of such a man, and his plot, that hath brought it about!" And, as they say in other countries, "There are five or six cunning men in England that have skill; they do all these things.
Seite 146 - January 1649, when the house of commons voted 'that the people are, under God, the original of all just power: . . . that the commons of England, in parliament assembled...
Seite 373 - Mission, be not [you] envious though Eldad and Medad prophesy. You know who bids us covet earnestly the best gifts, but chiefly that we may prophesy ; which the Apostle explains there to be a speaking to instruction and edification and comfort, — which speaking, the instructed, the edified and comforted can best tell the energy and effect of [and say whether it is genuine].
Seite 159 - Although he did not then believe but it might one day come to be again disputed among men, yet both he and others thought they could not refuse it without giving up the people of God, whom they had led forth and engaged themselves unto by the oath of God, into the hands of God's and their enemies, and therefore he cast himself upon God's protection, acting according to the dictates of a conscience which he had sought the Lord to guide, and accordingly the Lord did signalize his favour afterwards...
Seite 105 - Scots had again made to him ; and that he did really believe that it could not be long before there would be a war between the two nations, in which the Scots promised themselves...
Seite 312 - Without doubt, no man with more wickedness ever attempted any thing, or brought to pass what he desired more wickedly, more in the face and contempt of religion and moral honesty; yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those trophies, without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection and sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution.