Monk's Contemporaries: Biographic Studies on the English RevolutionBohn, 1851 - 195 pages |
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... attempt a negotiation ; and on the very evening of his arrival he went , with the con- sent of his colleagues , and in company with Whitelocke , to pay a visit to the Earl of Lindsey , a nobleman of the king's household , and their ...
... attempt a negotiation ; and on the very evening of his arrival he went , with the con- sent of his colleagues , and in company with Whitelocke , to pay a visit to the Earl of Lindsey , a nobleman of the king's household , and their ...
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... attempt : " The Queen of England , " he says , " continuing to manifest a strong desire for peace , I was wishful to make use of this means to defend myself against the pretentions of the King of England , who maintained that , as he ...
... attempt : " The Queen of England , " he says , " continuing to manifest a strong desire for peace , I was wishful to make use of this means to defend myself against the pretentions of the King of England , who maintained that , as he ...
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... attempt , yet his loss would be lamented by all good men , and his name be transmitted to future ages with honour . " * Cromwell appeared moved by this language , and disposed to adopt the course recommended . Three months afterwards ...
... attempt , yet his loss would be lamented by all good men , and his name be transmitted to future ages with honour . " * Cromwell appeared moved by this language , and disposed to adopt the course recommended . Three months afterwards ...
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... attempted , however , to retain his military functions . He held his command from the Republican Parliament , and might employ his authority for its restoration . It cost him a great deal also to separate himself entirely from a govern ...
... attempted , however , to retain his military functions . He held his command from the Republican Parliament , and might employ his authority for its restoration . It cost him a great deal also to separate himself entirely from a govern ...
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... attempt to gain the crown . A Parliament was indispensable , but it was necessary that at all events it should be submissive and docile . It was , there- fore , above all things , desirable to exclude those republicans who were neither ...
... attempt to gain the crown . A Parliament was indispensable , but it was necessary that at all events it should be submissive and docile . It was , there- fore , above all things , desirable to exclude those republicans who were neither ...
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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...