Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations, Volume 3Chapman and Hall, 1850 - Great Britain |
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... foot ' in this hut early in the morning : Lesley's horse came across , and drove them out ; killing some and taking three prisoners ; ' -and so got possession of this pass and hut ; but did not keep it . Among the three prisoners was ...
... foot ' in this hut early in the morning : Lesley's horse came across , and drove them out ; killing some and taking three prisoners ; ' -and so got possession of this pass and hut ; but did not keep it . Among the three prisoners was ...
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... foot , by order of a Major - General say some , 1 extinguish their matches , all but two in a company ; cower under the corn - shocks , seeking some imperfect shelter and sleep . Be wakeful , ye English ; watch , and pray , and keep ...
... foot , by order of a Major - General say some , 1 extinguish their matches , all but two in a company ; cower under the corn - shocks , seeking some imperfect shelter and sleep . Be wakeful , ye English ; watch , and pray , and keep ...
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... foot , upon them , with a shock like tornado tem- pests ; break them , beat them , drive them all adrift . ' Some fled towards Copperspath , but most across their own foot . ' Their own poor foot , whose matches were hardly well alight ...
... foot , upon them , with a shock like tornado tem- pests ; break them , beat them , drive them all adrift . ' Some fled towards Copperspath , but most across their own foot . ' Their own poor foot , whose matches were hardly well alight ...
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... foot of the Doon Hill ; there we uplift it , to the tune of Bangor , or some still higher score , and roll it strong and great against the sky : O give ye praise unto the Lord , All nati - ons that be ; Likewise ye people all , accord ...
... foot of the Doon Hill ; there we uplift it , to the tune of Bangor , or some still higher score , and roll it strong and great against the sky : O give ye praise unto the Lord , All nati - ons that be ; Likewise ye people all , accord ...
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... foot from Berwick . - Having these considerations , upon Saturday the 30th of August we marched from Musselburgh to Had- dington . Where , by that time we had got the van- brigade of our horse , and our foot and train , into their ...
... foot from Berwick . - Having these considerations , upon Saturday the 30th of August we marched from Musselburgh to Had- dington . Where , by that time we had got the van- brigade of our horse , and our foot and train , into their ...
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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.