 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 Seiten
...greatness, so toward all who complied with his good pleasure, and courted his protection, he used great civility, generosity, and bounty. To reduce* three...that either of them would have denied him. * * To conclude his character : Cromwell was not so far a man of blood as to follow Machiavel's method ; which... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 Seiten
...France, Spain, or the Low Countries, where his friendship was current at the value he put upon it ; that as they did all sacrifice their honour and their interest to his pleasure, so there was nothing he could have demanded that either of them would have denied him." But, notwithstanding... | |
 | Thomas Simpson Birkby - 1870 - 242 Seiten
...a power in England far more absolute than that of the monarch whose death he had sanctioned ; and " his greatness at home was but a shadow of the glory...their interest to his pleasure, so there is nothing that he could have demanded that either of them would have denied."* Under his protection the Protestants... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 Seiten
...where his friendship was current at the value he put upon it. As they did all sacrifice their honor and their interest to his pleasure, so there is nothing...demanded that either of them would have denied him. . . . might be a general massacre of all the royal party, as the only expedient to secure the government,"... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 252 Seiten
...greatness, so towards all who complied with his good pleasure and courted his protection he used great civility, generosity, and bounty. To reduce three...demanded that either of them would have denied him. To conclude his character, Cromwell was not so far a man of blood as to follow Machiavel's method, which... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 Seiten
...France, Spain, or the Low Countries, where his friendship was current at the value he put upon it. And as they did all sacrifice their honour and their interest...them would have denied him. To manifest which, there need only two instances. The first is, when those of the valley of Lucerne had unwarily rebelled against... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1875 - 660 Seiten
...where his friendship was current at the value he put upon it. As they did all sacrifice their honor and their interest to his pleasure, so there is nothing...demanded that either of them would have denied him. To conclude his character: Cromwell was not so far a man of blood as to follow Machiavel's method; which... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 Seiten
...greatness, so towards all who complied with his good pleasure, and courted his protection, he used great dented him. . . . To conclude his character : Cromwell was not so far a man of blood as to follow Machiavel's... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 Seiten
...feared him most, France, Spain, or the Low Countries, where his friendship was current at the value ho put upon it. As they did all sacrifice their honour...that either of them would have denied him. . . . To conclude his character: Cromwell was not во far a man of blood as to follow Machiavel's method ;... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 Seiten
...feared him most, France, Spain, or the Low Countries, where his friendship was current at the value ho iscipline of our virtues, in the severe school of...origin in the necessities of disordered finance, conclude his character: Cromwell was not so far a man of blood as to follow Machiavel's method ; which... | |
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But his greatness at home was but a shadow of the glory he had abroad. It was hard to discover which feared him most, France, Spain, or the Low Countries, where his friendship was current at the value he put upon it. As they did all sacrifice their honour... 
