The Works of Lord Morley, Volume 5Macmillan and Company, limited, 1921 |
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... Cromwell's account of himself . He was the descend- ant in the third degree of Richard Cromwell , whose earlier name was Richard Williams , a Welshman , from Glamorganshire , nephew , and one of the agents of Thomas Cromwell , the iron ...
... Cromwell's account of himself . He was the descend- ant in the third degree of Richard Cromwell , whose earlier name was Richard Williams , a Welshman , from Glamorganshire , nephew , and one of the agents of Thomas Cromwell , the iron ...
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... Richard . Robert Cromwell married ( 1591 ) a young widow , Elizabeth Lynn . Her maiden name of Steward is only interesting because some of her stock boasted that if one should climb the genealogical tree high enough , it would be found ...
... Richard . Robert Cromwell married ( 1591 ) a young widow , Elizabeth Lynn . Her maiden name of Steward is only interesting because some of her stock boasted that if one should climb the genealogical tree high enough , it would be found ...
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... Cromwell as of Sir John Eliot , beguiling his heavy hours in the Tower with ... Cromwell was of another type . Bacon said about Sir Edward Coke that he ... Richard to bear in mind , " is not 66 99 literal or speculative , but inward ...
... Cromwell as of Sir John Eliot , beguiling his heavy hours in the Tower with ... Cromwell was of another type . Bacon said about Sir Edward Coke that he ... Richard to bear in mind , " is not 66 99 literal or speculative , but inward ...
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... Richard Cromwell . Two years after his return from Westminster ( 1631 ) he sold his whole Huntingdon property for eighteen hundred pounds , equivalent to between five and six thousand to - day . With this capital in hand he rented and ...
... Richard Cromwell . Two years after his return from Westminster ( 1631 ) he sold his whole Huntingdon property for eighteen hundred pounds , equivalent to between five and six thousand to - day . With this capital in hand he rented and ...
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... Richard Cromwell , his son ; " let this be the business of your life and strength , and let all things be subservient and in order to this . " To Richard Mayor , the father of his son's wife , he says : " Truly our work is neither from ...
... Richard Cromwell , his son ; " let this be the business of your life and strength , and let all things be subservient and in order to this . " To Richard Mayor , the father of his son's wife , he says : " Truly our work is neither from ...
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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...