Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations, Volume 4Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1861 - Great Britain |
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... matter I will send ' to ' your Eminency by Lockhart . 1 And now I shall boast to your Eminency my se- * His suit , I understand , was for leave to continue in France ; an Anti- Spanish notion . ** Cipher for some Man's Name , now ...
... matter I will send ' to ' your Eminency by Lockhart . 1 And now I shall boast to your Eminency my se- * His suit , I understand , was for leave to continue in France ; an Anti- Spanish notion . ** Cipher for some Man's Name , now ...
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... matter ! Par- liament adjourns for a week , till the roots of the Plot are in- vestigated somewhat . Parliament , on reassembling , appoints a day of Thanksgiving for the Nation ; Friday come four weeks , which is February 20th , that ...
... matter ! Par- liament adjourns for a week , till the roots of the Plot are in- vestigated somewhat . Parliament , on reassembling , appoints a day of Thanksgiving for the Nation ; Friday come four weeks , which is February 20th , that ...
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... matter . At bottom , if we will con- sider it , this poor Burton , let us continue to call him " Burton , " though that was not his name , cared nothing about these matters himself ; merely jotted them down pedan- tically , by impulse ...
... matter . At bottom , if we will con- sider it , this poor Burton , let us continue to call him " Burton , " though that was not his name , cared nothing about these matters himself ; merely jotted them down pedan- tically , by impulse ...
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... matters , and even feel a certain smack of delight in them ! A massiveness of eupeptic vigour speaks itself there , which perhaps the liveliest wit might envy . Who is there that has the strength of ten oxen , that is able to support ...
... matters , and even feel a certain smack of delight in them ! A massiveness of eupeptic vigour speaks itself there , which perhaps the liveliest wit might envy . Who is there that has the strength of ten oxen , that is able to support ...
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... matter also ; to extricate Oliver's real words and procedure on it from the detestable confusions and lumber - mountains of Human Stupidity , old and recent , under which , as usual , they lie buried . Some Seven , or even Eight ...
... matter also ; to extricate Oliver's real words and procedure on it from the detestable confusions and lumber - mountains of Human Stupidity , old and recent , under which , as usual , they lie buried . Some Seven , or even Eight ...
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Page 222 - ... do good for them. Give them consistency of judgment, one heart, and mutual love; and go on to deliver them, and with the work of reformation ; and make the Name of Christ glorious in the world. Teach those who look too much on Thy instruments, to depend more upon Thyself. Pardon such as desire to trample upon the dust of a poor worm, for they are Thy People too. And pardon the folly of this short Prayer : — Even for Jesus Christ's sake. And give us a good night, if it be Thy pleasure. Amen.
Page 277 - I shall, in all just and honourable ways, endeavour to preserve the union and peace betwixt the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland : and neither for hope, fear nor other respect, shall relinquish this Promise, Vow and Protestation.
Page 158 - 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. Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good ; And our land shall yield her increase. Righteousness shall go before Him ; And shall set us in the way of His steps.
Page 12 - Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him ; that glory may dwell in our land.
Page 186 - 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.
Page 196 - A'nd if this be So, I do assign [it] to this cause : Your not assenting to what you did invite me to by your Petition and Advice, as that which might prove the Settlement of the Nation. And if this be the end of your sitting, and this be your carriage — [Sentence now all beautifully blazing], I think it high time that an end be put to your sitting.
Page 297 - OLIVER P. OLIVER, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, to the Commissioners authorised by a late Ordinance for Approbation of Public Preachers, or ' to
Page 297 - That the Chancellor, Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal, the Treasurer, Admiral, Chief Governors of Ireland and Scotland, and the Chief Justices of both the Benches, shall be chosen by the approbation of Parliament; and, in the intervals of Parliament, by the approbation of the major part of the Council, to be afterwards approved by the Parliament.
Page 215 - 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 143 - The giving the Spaniard opportunity so much the more to reinforce himself; and the keeping our men another summer to serve the French, without any colour of a reciprocal, or any, advantage to ourselves ! And therefore if this will not be listened unto, I desire that things may be...