Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations, Volume 3Chapman and Hall, 1850 - Great Britain |
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... Dunbar . Here is the Lord General's own Letter to a Mem- ber of the Council of State , ' - we might guess this or the other , but cannot with the least certainty know which . ' To SIR , LETTER CXXXVIII . Council of State in Whitehall ...
... Dunbar . Here is the Lord General's own Letter to a Mem- ber of the Council of State , ' - we might guess this or the other , but cannot with the least certainty know which . ' To SIR , LETTER CXXXVIII . Council of State in Whitehall ...
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... Dunbar , which has a harbour , we might fortify for a kind of citadel and winter- quarter ; let us retire at least to Dunbar , to be near our sole friends in this country , our Ships . On the morrow evening , Saturday the 31st , the ...
... Dunbar , which has a harbour , we might fortify for a kind of citadel and winter- quarter ; let us retire at least to Dunbar , to be near our sole friends in this country , our Ships . On the morrow evening , Saturday the 31st , the ...
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With Elucidations Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle. LETTERS CXXXIX - CXLVI . BATTLE OF DUNBAR , THE small Town of Dunbar stands , high and windy , looking down over its herring - boats , over its grim old Castle now much honeycombed , -on ...
With Elucidations Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle. LETTERS CXXXIX - CXLVI . BATTLE OF DUNBAR , THE small Town of Dunbar stands , high and windy , looking down over its herring - boats , over its grim old Castle now much honeycombed , -on ...
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... Dunbar people call the Dun , Doon , or sometimes for fashion's sake the Down , add- ing to it the Teutonic Hill likewise , though Dun itself in old Celtic signifies Hill . On this Doon Hill lies David Lesley with the victorious Scotch ...
... Dunbar people call the Dun , Doon , or sometimes for fashion's sake the Down , add- ing to it the Teutonic Hill likewise , though Dun itself in old Celtic signifies Hill . On this Doon Hill lies David Lesley with the victorious Scotch ...
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... Dunbar , ' 2d September , 1650 . We are upon an Engagement very difficult . The Enemy hath blocked up our way at the Pass at Copperspath , through which we cannot get without almost a miracle . He lieth so upon the Hills that we know ...
... Dunbar , ' 2d September , 1650 . We are upon an Engagement very difficult . The Enemy hath blocked up our way at the Pass at Copperspath , through which we cannot get without almost a miracle . He lieth so upon the Hills that we know ...
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Page 9 - The Lord at thy right hand: Shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies : He shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink of the brook in the way : Therefore shall he lift up the head.
Page 8 - 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 26 - But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way ; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink ; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Page 26 - 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 418 - For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children : that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born ; who should arise and declare them to their children, that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments.
Page 346 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Page 25 - 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 342 - Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Page 253 - You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
Page 41 - If your forces had been in a readiness to have fallen upon the back of Copperspath, it might have occasioned supplies to have come to us. But the only wise God knows what is best. All shall work for Good. Our spirits are comfortable, praised be the Lord — though our present condition be as it is. And indeed we have much hope in the Lord ; of whose mercy we have had large experience.