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Page 102
... Fairfax and Ireton must divide the blame between them . The ruffianism of war could not be avoided , but it was ruffianism without the diabolic ferocity of Spaniards in the sixteenth century , or Germans in the seventeenth , or French ...
... Fairfax and Ireton must divide the blame between them . The ruffianism of war could not be avoided , but it was ruffianism without the diabolic ferocity of Spaniards in the sixteenth century , or Germans in the seventeenth , or French ...
Page 104
... Fairfax . The two sides drew up in front of one another , foot in the centre , horse on the wings ; and then they fell to and hammered one another as hard as they could , and they who hammered hardest and stood to it longest won the day ...
... Fairfax . The two sides drew up in front of one another , foot in the centre , horse on the wings ; and then they fell to and hammered one another as hard as they could , and they who hammered hardest and stood to it longest won the day ...
Page 120
... , and it was in these operations that the younger Fairfax , the future Lord General of the parliament , first showed his gallantry , his dash , CHAP . II ROYALISTS IN NORTH AND WEST 121 his 120 BOOK II OLIVER CROMWELL.
... , and it was in these operations that the younger Fairfax , the future Lord General of the parliament , first showed his gallantry , his dash , CHAP . II ROYALISTS IN NORTH AND WEST 121 his 120 BOOK II OLIVER CROMWELL.
Page 122
... Fairfax and Man- chester met a body of royalist contingents from Newcastle , Gainsborough , and Lincoln . The same day that saw the royalist repulse at Winceby , saw Newcastle raise the siege of Hull . Two months later the Scots began ...
... Fairfax and Man- chester met a body of royalist contingents from Newcastle , Gainsborough , and Lincoln . The same day that saw the royalist repulse at Winceby , saw Newcastle raise the siege of Hull . Two months later the Scots began ...
Page 126
... Fairfax charged Goring , as Cromwell and Leslie charged Rupert , and he made a desperate fight for it . He cut his way through , chasing a body of Goring's force before him on the road south to York . When he turned back from his chase ...
... Fairfax charged Goring , as Cromwell and Leslie charged Rupert , and he made a desperate fight for it . He cut his way through , chasing a body of Goring's force before him on the road south to York . When he turned back from his chase ...
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Page 16 - Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 427 - Park ; and before I came to him, as he rode at the head of his life-guard, I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him : and when I came to him he looked like a dead man.
Page 145 - Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies.
Page 433 - Your pretended fear lest Error should step in, is like the man who would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon a supposition he may abuse it. When he doth abuse it, judge.
Page 208 - I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear, that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government...
Page 368 - 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.
Page 24 - Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Page 392 - I can say in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this.
Page 279 - If your forces had been in a readiness to have fallen upon the back of Copperspath, it might have occasioned supplies to have come to us. But the only wise God knows what is best. All shall work for Good. Our spirits * are comfortable, praised be the Lord, — though our present condition be as it is.
Page 7 - I was by birth a Gentleman ; living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the Nation : To serve in...