...greatest prince that ever ruled England." Another, that of Mr. Samuel Rawson Gardiner, who says : " It is time for us to regard him as he really was with...Shakespeare was in the world of thought, the greatest and most typical Englishman of all time." And yet another — the testimony of Southey, the great Tory...

...estimate of the Lord Protector: "With Cromwell's memory it has fared as with ourselves. Royalists hated him as a devil ; Carlyle painted him as the masterful...and spiritual yearnings, in the world of action what Shakspere was in the world of thought— the greatest because the most typical Englishman of all time....

...the present and the past can reasonably deny. With Cromwell's memory it has fared as with ourselves. It is time for us to regard him as he really was,...because the most typical Englishman of all time.** A Modern Depreciation (John Morley) To imply that Cromwell stands in the line of European dictators...

...who held at death the almost unquestioned primacy among the writers of history in the English tongue. "It is time for us to regard him as he really was,...because the most typical, Englishman of all time."* For the older but the smaller of these two kinsmen the ebb and flow of the tide of injustice has been...

...the present and the past can reasonably deny. With Cromwell's memory it has fared as with ourselves. It is time for us to regard him as he really was,...greatest because the most typical Englishman of all time.*1 A Modern Depreciation (John Morley) To imply that Cromwell stands in the line of European dictators...

...who held at death the almost unquestioned primacy among the writers of history in the English tongue. "It is time for us to regard him as he really was,...of thought, the greatest, because the most typical, Engglishman of all time." * For the older but the smaller of these two kinsmen the ebb and flow of...

...publication of Carlyle's monumental work, and it is as an Englishman that he must be judged. . . . With Cromwell's memory it has fared as with ourselves....most enduring sense, is Cromwell's place in history." The idea most difficult for me to relinquish is that of Cromwell as a link in that historic chain which...

...Englishmen, in respect especially of both the powers of .his mind and the grandeur of his character: "in the world of action what Shakespeare was in the...because the most typical Englishman of all time," yet not "the masterful saint » of Carlyle's "peculiar Valhalla." It explains, but does not deny, "the...

...foreigners may say, we are prone, without afterthought, to place our strength at the service of morality. . With Cromwell's memory it has fared as with ourselves....Cromwell's place in history. He stands there, not to be implicitly followed as a model, but to hold up a mirror to ourselves, wherein we may see alike our...

...thinking, and it contains, not a picture, but a subtle and many-sided presentment of the Protector as he really was, with all his physical and moral...greatest because the most typical Englishman of all time. Gardiner's English is not energetic and clumsy like Grote's; but it has been justly charged with some...