A Lecture on the Life and Character of Oliver Cromwell: Delivered Before the Young Men's Literary Association of Cleveland ... Jan. 28, 1847Younglove's Steam Press, 1850 - 155 من الصفحات |
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... hearts of her citizens . In England , the open battle between freedom and despotism had hardly begun . Heretofore there had been suffering , petitioning , and sometimes a remonstrance on the side of those who sighed for free- dom ; on ...
... hearts of her citizens . In England , the open battle between freedom and despotism had hardly begun . Heretofore there had been suffering , petitioning , and sometimes a remonstrance on the side of those who sighed for free- dom ; on ...
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... heart to fallen princi . palities and powers . To minds thus raised above the sphere of earthly littleness and spiritualized into abhorrence of whatever served to ob- struct their view of God's revealed realities , unauthorized ...
... heart to fallen princi . palities and powers . To minds thus raised above the sphere of earthly littleness and spiritualized into abhorrence of whatever served to ob- struct their view of God's revealed realities , unauthorized ...
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... hearts of far - seeing statesmen to beat fitfully with the conflicting emotions of hope and fear . There were men in Parliament and out of Parliament , who were deep - read in the living oracles of truth , who had grasped , with an ...
... hearts of far - seeing statesmen to beat fitfully with the conflicting emotions of hope and fear . There were men in Parliament and out of Parliament , who were deep - read in the living oracles of truth , who had grasped , with an ...
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... heart , was the chief prompter , and his rash and wicked measures were as often adopted against the wishes as with the advice of his friends . † * Witness , for example , his false publication of his answer to the Petition of Right ...
... heart , was the chief prompter , and his rash and wicked measures were as often adopted against the wishes as with the advice of his friends . † * Witness , for example , his false publication of his answer to the Petition of Right ...
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... heart a strength of hope , which no other subjects of thought could have imparted . And his early study of the principles of the Common Law as well as of those inspired Institutes wherein the elements of all law and the true ends of all ...
... heart a strength of hope , which no other subjects of thought could have imparted . And his early study of the principles of the Common Law as well as of those inspired Institutes wherein the elements of all law and the true ends of all ...
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الصفحة 113 - 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 Thou do dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them.
الصفحة 113 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' the air ; strange screams of death: And, prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events, New hatch'd to the woeful time, The obscure bird clamour'd the live-long night : Some say the earth was feverous, and did shake.
الصفحة 113 - Lord, however thou dost dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them ; give them consistency of judgment, one heart, and mutual love, and go on to deliver them ; and with the work of reformation ; and make the name of Christ glorious in the world...
الصفحة 67 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed, And on the neck of crowned Fortune proud 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...
الصفحة 84 - The mind is the man. If that be kept pure, a man signifies somewhat; if not, I would very fain see what difference there is betwixt him and a beast He hath only some activity to do some more mischief.
الصفحة 54 - Janus, with his two controversial faces, might now not unsignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and...
الصفحة 77 - I meddle not with any man's conscience. But if by liberty of conscience, you mean a liberty to exercise the Mass, I judge it best to use plain dealing, and to let you know, Where the Parliament of England have power, that will not he allowed of.
الصفحة 30 - Church to be fired, when one of them was heard to say in the midst of the flames : " God damn me, God confound me ; I burn, I burn.