Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the First Edition. With Elucidations, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1859 - Great Britain |
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... History during the Seventeenth Century , need not be insisted on at present ; such hope being still very distant , very uncertain . We have wandered far away from the ideas which guided us in that Century , and indeed which had guided ...
... History during the Seventeenth Century , need not be insisted on at present ; such hope being still very distant , very uncertain . We have wandered far away from the ideas which guided us in that Century , and indeed which had guided ...
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... Historical Books , and what indeed is fundamentally the cause and origin of that , our common spiritual notions , if any notion of ours may still deserve to be called spiritual , are fatal to a right understanding of that Seventeenth ...
... Historical Books , and what indeed is fundamentally the cause and origin of that , our common spiritual notions , if any notion of ours may still deserve to be called spiritual , are fatal to a right understanding of that Seventeenth ...
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... from Norman William all the way , and earlier and to the English mind at this hour , the past History of England is little other than a dull dismal labyrinth , in which the English mind , if candid , will ANTI - DRYASDUST .
... from Norman William all the way , and earlier and to the English mind at this hour , the past History of England is little other than a dull dismal labyrinth , in which the English mind , if candid , will ANTI - DRYASDUST .
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... History always ! By very nature it is a labyrinth and chaos , this that we call Human History ; an abatis of trees and brush- wood , a world - wide jungle , at once growing and dying . Under the green foliage and blossoming fruit ...
... History always ! By very nature it is a labyrinth and chaos , this that we call Human History ; an abatis of trees and brush- wood , a world - wide jungle , at once growing and dying . Under the green foliage and blossoming fruit ...
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... History , the grand difference between a Dryasdust and a sacred Poet , is very much even this : To distinguish well what does still reach to the surface , and is alive and frondent for us ; and what reaches no longer to the surface ...
... History , the grand difference between a Dryasdust and a sacred Poet , is very much even this : To distinguish well what does still reach to the surface , and is alive and frondent for us ; and what reaches no longer to the surface ...
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Page 437 - The Lord said unto my Lord : Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion : rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power ; in the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning : thou hast the dew of thy youth.
Page 448 - Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of God, all that you say? I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Page 188 - NOT UNTO us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
Page 448 - In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people...
Page 539 - Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. 133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. 134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
Page 109 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom 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 ; his countenance swollen and reddish; his...
Page 169 - 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 97 - You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh, I lived in and loved darkness, and hated the light. I was a chief, the chief of sinners.
Page 542 - And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields: shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife ? a,9 thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
Page 424 - What can we say to these things ! If God be for us, who can be against us?