The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in 1688. In Eight Volumes, Band 7J. M'Creery, 1807 |
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... military insti- tutions ; and the rigid inflexibility of character by which the austere reformers of church and state were distinguished , enabled the parliamentary chiefs to restrain their soldiers within stricter rules and more exact ...
... military insti- tutions ; and the rigid inflexibility of character by which the austere reformers of church and state were distinguished , enabled the parliamentary chiefs to restrain their soldiers within stricter rules and more exact ...
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... military profession re- quires great genius , and long experience , in the principal commanders , all its subordinate duties may be discharged by ordinary talents , and from superficial practice . Citizens and country gentle- men soon ...
... military profession re- quires great genius , and long experience , in the principal commanders , all its subordinate duties may be discharged by ordinary talents , and from superficial practice . Citizens and country gentle- men soon ...
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... military operations , which , during the winter , were carried on with vigour in several places , notwith- standing the severity of the season . THE forces brought from Ireland were landed at Mostyne , in North Wales ; and being put ...
... military operations , which , during the winter , were carried on with vigour in several places , notwith- standing the severity of the season . THE forces brought from Ireland were landed at Mostyne , in North Wales ; and being put ...
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... military ope- rations , in which that nobleman reduced the enemy to difficulties for forage and provisions , he received intelligence of a great disaster which had befallen his forces in Yorkshire . Colonel Bellasis , whom he had left ...
... military ope- rations , in which that nobleman reduced the enemy to difficulties for forage and provisions , he received intelligence of a great disaster which had befallen his forces in Yorkshire . Colonel Bellasis , whom he had left ...
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... military operations , were renewed in London during the winter season ; and each being supported by his own faction , their mutual reproaches and accusations agitated the whole city and parliament . There had long pre- vailed , in that ...
... military operations , were renewed in London during the winter season ; and each being supported by his own faction , their mutual reproaches and accusations agitated the whole city and parliament . There had long pre- vailed , in that ...
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Seite 74 - And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye : why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king ? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
Seite 219 - You are no longer a parliament. I tell you, you are no longer a parliament. The Lord has done with you: he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work." Sir Harry Vane exclaiming against this proceeding, he cried with a loud voice, "O! Sir Harry Vane, Sir Harry Vane! The Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane!
Seite 520 - ... up in the skirt of a saddle, and the bearer of it would come with the saddle upon his head, about ten of the clock that night, to the Blue Boar in Holborn, where he was to take horse for Dover. The messenger knew nothing of the letter in the saddle, though some in Dover did. We were at Windsor...
Seite 219 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Seite 154 - These meditations resemble, in elegance, purity, neatness, and simplicity, the genius of those performances, which we know with certainty to have . flowed from the Royal pen: but are so unlike the bombast, perplexed, rhetorical, and corrupt style of Dr. Gauden, to whom they are ascribed, that no human testimony seems sufficient to convince us that he was the author.
Seite 219 - get you gone ; give place to honester men; to those who will more faithfully discharge their trust. You are no longer a Parliament. I tell vou, you are no longer a Parliament. The Lord has done with you: he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work.
Seite 113 - Parliament should guide and defend the kingdom by their own power and resolutions, and not accustom the people any longer to expect safety and government from an obstinate man, whose heart God had hardened...
Seite 524 - You may rest secure, that though perhaps we may give way for the present to that which will be prejudicial both to the church and our own government, yet we shall not leave thinking in time how to remedy both.
Seite 228 - I never looked to see such a Day as this, — it may be nor you neither, — when Jesus Christ should be so owned as He is, this day, in this Work.
Seite 288 - ... call together parliaments with a word of his pen, and scatter them again with the breath of his mouth ; to be humbly and daily petitioned...