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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... nature . These letters throw a flood of light on many important points in his history , hitherto either entirely unknown or the subjects of gross misrepresentation . They exhibit him in the interesting relations of private as well as of ...
... nature . These letters throw a flood of light on many important points in his history , hitherto either entirely unknown or the subjects of gross misrepresentation . They exhibit him in the interesting relations of private as well as of ...
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... natural temper to magnanimity , to grandeur . " Eminent dexterity . " " Signal military talents . " Hume himself seems a ... nature should ever have really existed , " A remarkable example of grouping facts or pretended facts , without ...
... natural temper to magnanimity , to grandeur . " Eminent dexterity . " " Signal military talents . " Hume himself seems a ... nature should ever have really existed , " A remarkable example of grouping facts or pretended facts , without ...
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... natural that they should spurn as absurd and impious the distinctions which human selfishness and folly had reared . Civil government they recognized as the ordinance of God ; but his ordinance not for the benefit of rulers only , but ...
... natural that they should spurn as absurd and impious the distinctions which human selfishness and folly had reared . Civil government they recognized as the ordinance of God ; but his ordinance not for the benefit of rulers only , but ...
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... nature was im- pelling him with an unrelenting and finally desperate determination . Meanwhile England , in her great interests - her religion and litera . ture , in her commerce and manufactures - in her totality of civiliza- tion ...
... nature was im- pelling him with an unrelenting and finally desperate determination . Meanwhile England , in her great interests - her religion and litera . ture , in her commerce and manufactures - in her totality of civiliza- tion ...
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... natural result of that self - train- ing and that leisure for meditation on things fitted to expand the soul which had been , to the present hour , peculiarly his . If he had not given his days and nights to the study of the lives of ...
... natural result of that self - train- ing and that leisure for meditation on things fitted to expand the soul which had been , to the present hour , peculiarly his . If he had not given his days and nights to the study of the lives of ...
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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.