 I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to...  Cromwell as a Soldier - Page 382by Thomas Stanford Baldock - 1899 - 538 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Ward - Freedom of religion - 1647 - 120 pages
...on the head; and every tenth man of the soldiers killed; and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. ' ' "I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment...have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood. ' ' 1 Carlyle, Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, 1 : 196. And he concludes this letter: "And... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 542 pages
...man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. — I am perswaded," adds he, " that this is a righteous judgment of God Upon these...much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the * Borlase's History of the execrable Irish Rebellion, p. 222. fo). Load. 1680. » Id. p. 22*. out... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1829 - 352 pages
...John FieM, printer to the Parliament of England, 1649. Having given these details, Cromwell adds, " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God, upon these barbarous wretches who have embrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it -will tend to prevent the effusion of blood... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 686 pages
...John Field, printer to the Parliament of England, 1649. Having given these details, Cromwell adds, " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God, upon these barbarous wretches who have embrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1833 - 286 pages
...confessed he was a friar ; but that did not save him."* Having given these details, Cromwell adds, " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of...much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future — which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions •which... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1838 - 394 pages
...confessed he was a friar; but that did not 'save him."* Having given these details, Cromwell adds, " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of...much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future — which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions which otherwise... | |
 | Ireland - 1832 - 448 pages
...and every tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. I am prrsuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will teud to prevent the effusion of blood... | |
 | Statesmen - 1838 - 380 pages
...In a subsequent letter on the same subject indeed he confesses this. " I am persuaded," he says, " that this is a righteous judgment of God, upon these barbarous wretches who have embrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the t'ffusion of blood... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Ireland - 1844 - 524 pages
...taking of Drogheda, he says, * Fonter'i Life of Cromwell. Lardncr'i Cyclopajdia, vol. i., p. 270-1. " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of...much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood far the future ; which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions as cannot... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1845 - 588 pages
...in the other Tower were all spared, as to their lives only ; and shipped likewise for the Barbadoes. I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of...innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise... | |
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