The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641: Books VI-VIIIClarendon Press, 1888 - Great Britain |
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... appeared it was not so great but that they had been able to take them from him , than they to make any difficulty to restore them to him in the same case they were before . But , ' he said , ' as he was himself content with , so , he ...
... appeared it was not so great but that they had been able to take them from him , than they to make any difficulty to restore them to him in the same case they were before . But , ' he said , ' as he was himself content with , so , he ...
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... appeared that the King was 1643 not strong enough to relieve them they should not have been admitted to such conditions : and therefore that he believed a hazard of so great a concernment was not to be run , when he well knew his ...
... appeared that the King was 1643 not strong enough to relieve them they should not have been admitted to such conditions : and therefore that he believed a hazard of so great a concernment was not to be run , when he well knew his ...
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... appeared afterwards as a volunteer with the same courage in the most perilous actions , and obtained a principal command in another of the King's armies , he never recovered the misfortune and blemish of this imputation . And yet I must ...
... appeared afterwards as a volunteer with the same courage in the most perilous actions , and obtained a principal command in another of the King's armies , he never recovered the misfortune and blemish of this imputation . And yet I must ...
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... appeared now without any fruit ; the King had all his forces and army entire , and had only lost a town that he never meant to keep , and which they knew not what to do with , and was now ready to come into the field , when theirs was ...
... appeared now without any fruit ; the King had all his forces and army entire , and had only lost a town that he never meant to keep , and which they knew not what to do with , and was now ready to come into the field , when theirs was ...
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... appearing too great a stickler in a petition for peace from the city1 . This gentleman industriously preserved a correspondence still there , by which he gave the King often very useful intelligence , and assured him of a very ...
... appearing too great a stickler in a petition for peace from the city1 . This gentleman industriously preserved a correspondence still there , by which he gave the King often very useful intelligence , and assured him of a very ...
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Popular passages
Page 207 - God, endeavour, in our several places and callings, the preservation of the reformed religion in the church of Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies ; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Page 208 - And this covenant we make in the presence of Almighty God, the searcher of all hearts, with a true intention to perform the same, as we shall answer at that great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed...
Page 248 - Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? Should it not be with the heads of these men? 5. Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
Page 189 - When there was any overture or hope of peace, he would be more erect and vigorous, and exceedingly solicitous to press any thing which he thought might promote it ; and sitting among his friends, often, after a deep silence and frequent sighs, would, with a shrill and sad accent, ingeminate the word,
Page 189 - Peace, and would passionately profess, 'that the very agony of the war, and the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom did and must endure, took his sleep from him, and would shortly break his heart'.
Page 62 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided that no corrupt or private ends could bias them...
Page 181 - He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar minds, and was guilty of no other ambition than of knowledge, and to be reputed a lover of all good men; and that made him too much a contemner of those arts which must be indulged in the transaction of human affairs.
Page 229 - And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built, and the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cup-bearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.
Page 180 - ... with the passion and infirmities of her own sex) to pervert him in his piety to the church of England, and to reconcile him to that of Rome, which they prosecuted with the more confidence because he declined no opportunity or occasion of conference with those of that religion, whether priests or...
Page 189 - In the morning, before the battle, as always upon action, he was very cheerful, and put himself into the first rank of the Lord Byron's regiment, who was then advancing upon the enemy, who had lined the hedges on both sides with musketeers ; from whence he was shot with a musket in the lower part of the belly, and in the instant falling from his horse, his body was not found till the next morning; till when, there was some hope he might have been a prisoner; though his nearest friends, who knew his...