Monk's Contemporaries: Biographic Studies on the English RevolutionBohn, 1851 - 195 pages |
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... army under the command of the Earl of Essex , and on the 12th of November , 1642 , his regiment , though unassisted , stopped the march of the royal army for some time at Brent- ford , seven miles from London , and prevented it from ...
... army under the command of the Earl of Essex , and on the 12th of November , 1642 , his regiment , though unassisted , stopped the march of the royal army for some time at Brent- ford , seven miles from London , and prevented it from ...
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... army , and Crom- well were employing against them the same artifices and the same violence which they had themselves put in practice against the king's partisans . What marvel that one portion of the Parliament believed itself justified ...
... army , and Crom- well were employing against them the same artifices and the same violence which they had themselves put in practice against the king's partisans . What marvel that one portion of the Parliament believed itself justified ...
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... army , Hollis was one of the first proscribed . In August , 1647 , excluded from the House of Commons , and accused of high treason , he took refuge in France , at Sainte - Mère - Eglide , in Normandy , near the coast ; as if he were ...
... army , Hollis was one of the first proscribed . In August , 1647 , excluded from the House of Commons , and accused of high treason , he took refuge in France , at Sainte - Mère - Eglide , in Normandy , near the coast ; as if he were ...
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... army , but it appears as if this was all that he had any recollection of , and that the conduct of the Presbyterians , at the commencement of the civil war , was altogether absent from his thoughts . If this great omission be borne in ...
... army , but it appears as if this was all that he had any recollection of , and that the conduct of the Presbyterians , at the commencement of the civil war , was altogether absent from his thoughts . If this great omission be borne in ...
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... army which the Parliament levied to secure them , he bore the vio- lence and injustice of his enemies as it became a finished hero ; nor could losses , exile , or his hatred to the factious , make him forget him the love that he owed to ...
... army which the Parliament levied to secure them , he bore the vio- lence and injustice of his enemies as it became a finished hero ; nor could losses , exile , or his hatred to the factious , make him forget him the love that he owed to ...
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Page 181 - The particular you mention has indeed been mentioned to me, as a secret ; I am sorry I ever knew it ; and when it ceases to be a secret, it will please none but MR. MILTON...
Page 68 - ... he fell from his duty, and all his former friends, and prostituted himself to the vile office of celebrating the infamous acts of those who were in rebellion against the King ; which he did so meanly, that he seemed to all men to have lost his wits when he left his honesty; and so shortly after died miserable and neglected, and deserves to be forgotten.
Page 77 - I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor : his linen was plain and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hat-band, his stature was of a good size, his sword stuck close to his side, his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour, for the subjectmatter would...
Page 32 - high carriages' of Holies and Company, he whispers Edmund Ludlow who sat by him, " These men will never leave till the Army pull them out by the ears...
Page 121 - I entertained myself with elder company, to whom I was very acceptable ; and living in the house with many persons that had a great deal of wit, and very profitable serious discourses being frequent at my father's table and in my mother's drawing-room, I was very attentive to all, and gathered up things that I would utter again to great admiration of many that took my memory and imitation for wit.
Page 42 - That which we fought for,' said I, ' that the nation might be governed by its own consent.' ' I am,' said he, ' as much for a government by consent as any man ; but where shall we find that consent...