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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... letters , and other documents , which would have spoken for themselves and exhibited the man as he was , were mostly suffered , during nearly two long centuries of busy detraction , to lie unexamined and unpublished . Very many persons ...
... letters , and other documents , which would have spoken for themselves and exhibited the man as he was , were mostly suffered , during nearly two long centuries of busy detraction , to lie unexamined and unpublished . Very many persons ...
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... for the sake of promotion in England , he was willing to forsake his country and re- tire to a wilderness ! As shedding light upon the question of Cromwell's sincerity , his letters deserve mention . A hundred and forty - seven 12.
... for the sake of promotion in England , he was willing to forsake his country and re- tire to a wilderness ! As shedding light upon the question of Cromwell's sincerity , his letters deserve mention . A hundred and forty - seven 12.
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... letters ? Does hypocrisy betray itself in any one of them ? No. After a thorough perusal of them all , I affirm that those which were written to his most intimate friends , and obviously with the least caution , are the letters in which ...
... letters ? Does hypocrisy betray itself in any one of them ? No. After a thorough perusal of them all , I affirm that those which were written to his most intimate friends , and obviously with the least caution , are the letters in which ...
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... letters , his real conversations , his speeches , and his habitual deportment , —to declare my unwavering conviction that dissimulation did not characterize him . The symbol which truly represents him is not the fox , but the lion . His ...
... letters , his real conversations , his speeches , and his habitual deportment , —to declare my unwavering conviction that dissimulation did not characterize him . The symbol which truly represents him is not the fox , but the lion . His ...
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... letters , and his actions , during the eventful and most trying period of which I am now speaking - the period which intervened between the victory at Marston Moor and the resignation of Sir Thomas Fairfax -evince the modesty , the self ...
... letters , and his actions , during the eventful and most trying period of which I am now speaking - the period which intervened between the victory at Marston Moor and the resignation of Sir Thomas Fairfax -evince the modesty , the self ...
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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.