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... character of the independents . Dissension between Manchester and Cromwell ...... ... A new model of the army projected by the independents 20 Self - denying ordinance 1645 Fairfax : Cromwell Treaty of Uxbridge The commissioners ...
... character of the independents . Dissension between Manchester and Cromwell ...... ... A new model of the army projected by the independents 20 Self - denying ordinance 1645 Fairfax : Cromwell Treaty of Uxbridge The commissioners ...
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... Character of king Charles .... 128 Question of the lawfulness of resisting princes 130 The house of peers and monarchy voted useless and dangerous ..... 132 Genuineness of the Icon Basiliké 134 A. D. CHAPTER LX . THE COMMONWEALTH . 1649 ...
... Character of king Charles .... 128 Question of the lawfulness of resisting princes 130 The house of peers and monarchy voted useless and dangerous ..... 132 Genuineness of the Icon Basiliké 134 A. D. CHAPTER LX . THE COMMONWEALTH . 1649 ...
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... character PAGE 249 251 252 253 CHAPTER LXII . 1658 Richard Cromwell acknowledged protector 259 1659 A parliament ib . Cabal of Wallingford house .. 261 Richard deposed ...... 262 The long parliament or rump restored ... Conspiracy of ...
... character PAGE 249 251 252 253 CHAPTER LXII . 1658 Richard Cromwell acknowledged protector 259 1659 A parliament ib . Cabal of Wallingford house .. 261 Richard deposed ...... 262 The long parliament or rump restored ... Conspiracy of ...
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... Character of Lewis the fourteenth .... French invasion of the Low Countries Haughty conduct of Lewis ... Negotiations : De Wit and sir William Temple Triple league Displeasure of the French king ... Treaty of Aix - la - Chapelle Affairs ...
... Character of Lewis the fourteenth .... French invasion of the Low Countries Haughty conduct of Lewis ... Negotiations : De Wit and sir William Temple Triple league Displeasure of the French king ... Treaty of Aix - la - Chapelle Affairs ...
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... characters ..... Their counsels .... The king inclines to an alliance with France PAGE 399 400 401 402 ib . 403 ib . ... 404 406 408 ........ De Wit apprised by Puffendorf of the French intrigues ib . The duchess of Orleans pays a visit ...
... characters ..... Their counsels .... The king inclines to an alliance with France PAGE 399 400 401 402 ib . 403 ib . ... 404 406 408 ........ De Wit apprised by Puffendorf of the French intrigues ib . The duchess of Orleans pays a visit ...
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Page 125 - Mark, child! what I say: They will cut off my head! and perhaps make thee a king: But mark what I say, thou must not be a king, as long as thy brothers Charles and James are alive. They will cut off thy brothers' heads, when they can catch them! And thy head too they will cut off at last! Therefore, I charge thee, do not be made a king by them!
Page 198 - are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters and such kind of fellows and,' said I, 'their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?
Page 97 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Page 38 - Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of GREAT MAN is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced.
Page 405 - I know very well that you are at the bottom of this late attempt upon my father. But I give you warning, if...
Page 382 - Farewell, sun, moon, and stars ; farewell, world and time ; farewell, weak and frail body : welcome, eternity ; welcome, angels and saints ; welcome, Saviour of the world ; and welcome, God, the judge of all...
Page 193 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Page 65 - And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter ? have we eaten at all of the king's cost! or hath he given us any gift...
Page 57 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
Page 253 - What can be more extraordinary, than that a person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should have the courage to attempt, and the happiness to succeed in, so improbable a design, as the destruction of one of the most ancient and...