Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, with Elucidations, Volumes 3-5Chapman & Hall, 1894 - Great Britain |
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... word of Commentary that can be spared . Straggling accidental lightbeams , accidentally preserved to us , and still transiently illuminating this feature or that of the Protector and his business , -let them be welcome in the darkness ...
... word of Commentary that can be spared . Straggling accidental lightbeams , accidentally preserved to us , and still transiently illuminating this feature or that of the Protector and his business , -let them be welcome in the darkness ...
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... word - of- command too , and what the meaning of a Lord Protector , King , or Chief Magistrate in the Commonwealth of England was . ' Margery Beacham , ' Wife of William Beacham , Mariner , lives , the somnolent Editors do not apprise ...
... word - of- command too , and what the meaning of a Lord Protector , King , or Chief Magistrate in the Commonwealth of England was . ' Margery Beacham , ' Wife of William Beacham , Mariner , lives , the somnolent Editors do not apprise ...
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... [ word lost ] —in Cadiz ; ' dangerous ships and fire - ships , which belong all now to the vanished generations : and have sailed , one knows not whence one knows not whither ! 16 Antea , Letter CXCVIII . 17 In Blake's Letter , antea ...
... [ word lost ] —in Cadiz ; ' dangerous ships and fire - ships , which belong all now to the vanished generations : and have sailed , one knows not whence one knows not whither ! 16 Antea , Letter CXCVIII . 17 In Blake's Letter , antea ...
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... word to say anon . But take first these glimpses into other matters , foreign and domestic , on sea and land , —as the Oblivions have chanced to leave them visible for us . ' Cascais Bay ' is at the mouth of the Tagus : General Blake ...
... word to say anon . But take first these glimpses into other matters , foreign and domestic , on sea and land , —as the Oblivions have chanced to leave them visible for us . ' Cascais Bay ' is at the mouth of the Tagus : General Blake ...
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... word that we shall be most ready to supply what they may be defective in , or you may rea- sonably demand when once you are upon the place , —where certainly you may be better able to judge what may tend most to your accommodation than ...
... word that we shall be most ready to supply what they may be defective in , or you may rea- sonably demand when once you are upon the place , —where certainly you may be better able to judge what may tend most to your accommodation than ...
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Page 215 - 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 152 - 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 215 - 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. Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him ; that glory may dwell in our land.
Page 217 - 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. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Page 217 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth : he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Page 151 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the Name of the Lord ! — "His Highness," says Harvey,3 "being at Hampton Court, sickened a little before the Lady Elizabeth died.
Page 16 - are most of them old decayed serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality; do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour and courage and resolution in them...
Page 206 - I have known in my experience abominable murders quitted ; and to see men lose their lives for petty matters ! This is a thing that God will reckon for ; and I wish it may not lie upon this nation a day longer than you have an opportunity to give a remedy; and I hope I shall cheerfully join with you in it.
Page 205 - I think I may say it, I have as eminent Judges in this land as have been had, as the Nation has had, for these many years. [Hale and, others; yea,f\ — Truly I could be particular, as to the executive part [of it], as to the administration [of the Law] ; but that would trouble you.
Page 139 - Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.