A Lecture on the Life and Character of Oliver Cromwell: Delivered Before the Young Men's Literary Association of Cleveland ... Jan. 28, 1847Younglove's Steam Press, 1850 - 155 páginas |
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... Parliament re- suming and exercising lost and dormant rights , demanding justice against delinquents , and finally appealing to arms against a king proved false , cruel , and unworthy of trust ; and then enabled him to gaze upon the ...
... Parliament re- suming and exercising lost and dormant rights , demanding justice against delinquents , and finally appealing to arms against a king proved false , cruel , and unworthy of trust ; and then enabled him to gaze upon the ...
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... Parliaments summoned by Cromwell , it was seriously proposed that all the records in the Tower should be burnt , ' & c ... Parliament . That was an age of discussion and of great freedom in declaring individual opinions . There were ...
... Parliaments summoned by Cromwell , it was seriously proposed that all the records in the Tower should be burnt , ' & c ... Parliament . That was an age of discussion and of great freedom in declaring individual opinions . There were ...
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... parliamentary career commenced in 1628. He then took his seat in the third parliament of Charles I. , as a member for the borough of Huntingdon . † * Bancroft says , " Puritanism was a life - giving spirit ; activity , thrift , and ...
... parliamentary career commenced in 1628. He then took his seat in the third parliament of Charles I. , as a member for the borough of Huntingdon . † * Bancroft says , " Puritanism was a life - giving spirit ; activity , thrift , and ...
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... Parliament and out of Parliament , who were deep - read in the living oracles of truth , who had grasped , with an energy and faith known only to souls whom the light of heaven has made free , the principles which lie at the founda ...
... Parliament and out of Parliament , who were deep - read in the living oracles of truth , who had grasped , with an energy and faith known only to souls whom the light of heaven has made free , the principles which lie at the founda ...
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... Parliament after Parliament had been angrily dissolved ; one royal promise after another had been broken , and the discerning were fast learning that the liberties of the nation must be abandoned or the perils of a fearful struggle ...
... Parliament after Parliament had been angrily dissolved ; one royal promise after another had been broken , and the discerning were fast learning that the liberties of the nation must be abandoned or the perils of a fearful struggle ...
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Página 113 - Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service; and many of them have set too high a value upon me, though others wish, and would be glad of my death ; but, Lord, however Thou do dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them.
Página 113 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' the air ; strange screams of death: And, prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events, New hatch'd to the woeful time, The obscure bird clamour'd the live-long night : Some say the earth was feverous, and did shake.
Página 113 - Lord, however thou dost dispose of me, continue and go on to 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...
Página 67 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed, And on the neck of crowned Fortune proud Hast reared God's trophies, and his work pursued ; While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath...
Página 84 - The mind is the man. If that be kept pure, a man signifies somewhat; if not, I would very fain see what difference there is betwixt him and a beast He hath only some activity to do some more mischief.
Página 54 - Janus, with his two controversial faces, might now not unsignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and...
Página 77 - I meddle not with any man's conscience. But if by liberty of conscience, you mean a liberty to exercise the Mass, I judge it best to use plain dealing, and to let you know, Where the Parliament of England have power, that will not he allowed of.
Página 30 - Church to be fired, when one of them was heard to say in the midst of the flames : " God damn me, God confound me ; I burn, I burn.