Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations, Volume 1Chapman and Hall, 1845 |
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... reader's sake , let me again say plainly that all these Appendixes and Adjuncts are insignifi- cant ; that the Life of Cromwell lies in the Text ; and that a serious reader , if he take advice of mine , will not readily stir from that ...
... reader's sake , let me again say plainly that all these Appendixes and Adjuncts are insignifi- cant ; that the Life of Cromwell lies in the Text ; and that a serious reader , if he take advice of mine , will not readily stir from that ...
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... reader , and the completeness with which the fire of its author's genius has fused it into an artistic whole . Of his battle - pieces , with their intense reality and dramatic vigour of narrative , mention has already been made ; but ...
... reader , and the completeness with which the fire of its author's genius has fused it into an artistic whole . Of his battle - pieces , with their intense reality and dramatic vigour of narrative , mention has already been made ; but ...
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... readers . This is a thing that can be done ; and after some reflection , it has appeared worth doing . No great thing ... reader has already had account , it becomes more and more apparent to one , That this man Oliver Cromwell was , as ...
... readers . This is a thing that can be done ; and after some reflection , it has appeared worth doing . No great thing ... reader has already had account , it becomes more and more apparent to one , That this man Oliver Cromwell was , as ...
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... readers ! The heart of that Grand Puritan Business once again becoming visible , even in faint twilight , to man- kind , what masses of brutish darkness will gradually vanish from all fibres of it , from the whole body and environment ...
... readers ! The heart of that Grand Puritan Business once again becoming visible , even in faint twilight , to man- kind , what masses of brutish darkness will gradually vanish from all fibres of it , from the whole body and environment ...
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... reader , by his own judgment , is to extract what he can . For Noble himself is a man of extreme imbecility ; his judgment , for most part , seeming to lie dead asleep ; and indeed it is worth little when broadest awake . 1 Memoirs of ...
... reader , by his own judgment , is to extract what he can . For Noble himself is a man of extreme imbecility ; his judgment , for most part , seeming to lie dead asleep ; and indeed it is worth little when broadest awake . 1 Memoirs of ...
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Page 311 - Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my Spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Page 209 - Honest men served you faithfully in this action. Sir, they are trusty; I beseech you, in the name of God, not to discourage them. I wish this action may beget thankfulness and humility in all that are concerned in it. He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience, and you for the liberty he fights for.
Page 231 - NOT UNTO us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
Page 231 - They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not...
Page 398 - Thirdly, Whether this Army be not a lawful Power, called by God to oppose and fight against the King upon some stated grounds; and being in power to such ends, may not oppose one Name of Authority, for those ends, as well as another Name — since it was not the outward Authority summoning them that by its power made the quarrel lawful but the quarrel was lawful in itself? If so, it may be, acting will be justified in foro humano [before men]. But truly this kind of reasonings may be but fleshly...
Page 249 - Dear Heart, press on ; let not Husband, let not anything cool thy affections after Christ. I hope * he will be an occasion to inflame them. That which is best worthy of love in thy Husband is that of the image of Christ he bears. Look on that, and love it best, and all the rest for that.
Page 51 - Heaven and Hell for him : this constitutes the grand feature of those Puritan, Old-Christian Ages; this is the element which stamps them as Heroic, and has rendered their works great, manlike, fruitful to all generations. It is by far the memorablest achievement of our Species ; without that element, in some form or other, nothing of Heroic had ever been among us. For many centuries, Catholic Christianity, a fit embodiment of that divine Sense, had been current more or less, making the generations...
Page 109 - I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar. His hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side...
Page 352 - Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
Page 182 - It had all the evidences of an absolute Victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the Godly Party principally. We never charged but we routed the enemy. The Left Wing, which I commanded, being our own horse, saving a few Scots in our rear, beat all the Prince's horse. God made them as stubble to our swords. We charged their regiments of foot with our horse, and routed all we charged. The particulars I cannot relate now; but I believe, of twenty thousand the Prince hath not four thousand left....