Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations, Volume 4Chapman and Hall, 1850 - Great Britain |
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... taken into consi- deration the present Design we have in the West Indies , have judged it necessary , That not only the King of Spain's Fleets coming from thence be intercepted ( which as well your former Instructions as those now sent ...
... taken into consi- deration the present Design we have in the West Indies , have judged it necessary , That not only the King of Spain's Fleets coming from thence be intercepted ( which as well your former Instructions as those now sent ...
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... taken , as rich Hispaniola might have been , and the Spaniards were driven away but to men in biliary humour it seemed hardly worth the taking or the keeping . Immense droves of wild cattle , cows and horses , run about Jamaica ...
... taken , as rich Hispaniola might have been , and the Spaniards were driven away but to men in biliary humour it seemed hardly worth the taking or the keeping . Immense droves of wild cattle , cows and horses , run about Jamaica ...
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... taken part with the late King against us . the Articles were fully agreed by the Ambassador , who had full power and authority to conclude with us , we on our part ratified and confirmed the same , and sent it to the King of Portugal to ...
... taken part with the late King against us . the Articles were fully agreed by the Ambassador , who had full power and authority to conclude with us , we on our part ratified and confirmed the same , and sent it to the King of Portugal to ...
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... taken , all men admit , a nobler attitude than it ever had before . Nor has the task been easy hitherto ; nor is it like to be . No holiday work , governing such an England as this of Oliver Protector's ; with strong Papistry abroad ...
... taken , all men admit , a nobler attitude than it ever had before . Nor has the task been easy hitherto ; nor is it like to be . No holiday work , governing such an England as this of Oliver Protector's ; with strong Papistry abroad ...
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... taken sanctuary , ' as was pleaded . With that rather sorry result , and no other notice- able , Chancellor Hyde's Embassy took itself away again ; Spain ordering it to go . But now , this fierce Protestant Protector breathing nothing ...
... taken sanctuary , ' as was pleaded . With that rather sorry result , and no other notice- able , Chancellor Hyde's Embassy took itself away again ; Spain ordering it to go . But now , this fierce Protestant Protector breathing nothing ...
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Page 384 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the Name of the Lord ! — " His Highness," says Harvey, " being at Hampton Court, sickened a little before the Lady Elizabeth died.
Page 140 - Mercy and truth are met together ; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good ; and our land shall yield her increase. Righteousness shall go before him.; and shall set us -in the way of his steps.
Page 142 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Page 351 - I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
Page 142 - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. God is in the midst of her ; she shall not be moved : God shall help her, and that right early.
Page 385 - 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 140 - Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him ; that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth ; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Page 385 - I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me.
Page 395 - ... as John Milton saw her do : the Genius of England, much liker a greedy Ostrich intent on provender and a whole skin mainly, stands with its other extremity Sunward ; with its Ostrich-head stuck into the readiest bush, of old Church-tippets, King-cloaks, or what other ' sheltering Fallacy ' there may be, and so awaits the issue. The issue has been slow ; but it is now seen to have been inevitable. No Ostrich, intent on gross terrene provender, and sticking its head into Fallacies, but will be...
Page 403 - I, AB, do in the presence of Almighty God promise, vow, and protest to maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may with my Life, Power, and Estate, the true Reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England...