History of the Commonwealth of England from the Death of Charles I. to the Expulsion of the Long Parliament by Cromwell: Being Omitted Chapters of the History of England, Том 2

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J. Murray, 1867

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Страница 460 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Страница 88 - He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; Neither turneth he back from the sword.
Страница 140 - Winter difficulties of this country ; and to the endless expense of the treasure of England in prosecuting this War. It may be supposed we might have kept the Enemy from this, by interposing between him and England. Which truly I believe we might : but how to remove him out of this place, without doing what we have done, unless we had had a commanding Army on both sides of the River of Forth, is not clear to us ; or how to answer the inconveniences aforementioned, we understand not.
Страница 441 - Sir, the work is very great and dangerous, therefore I desire you seriously to consider of it before you engage in it.
Страница 152 - Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddle-bow ; A hundred more fed free in stall : Such was the custom of Branksome Hall.
Страница 232 - And yet Time hath his revolutions ; there must be a period and an end to all temporal things— -finis rerum, an end of names and dignities, and whatsoever is terrene, and why not of De Vere ? For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer ? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet ? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality.
Страница 444 - It's you that have forced me to this, for I have -sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Страница 362 - Honours know in general that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the State's ships, and therefore I make it my humble request that your Honours would be pleased to send down some gentlemen to take an impartial and strict examination of the deportment of several commanders, that you may know who are to be confided in and who are not.
Страница 443 - O Sir Henry Vane, Sir Henry Vane ; the Lord deliver me from Sir Henry Vane.' Then looking upon one of the members, he said, ' There sits a drunkard ; ' and giving much reviling language to others, he commanded the mace to be taken away, saying, ' What shall we do with this bauble ? here, take it away.
Страница 71 - ... succeeded in this attempt, were such as saw the spirit of liberty suppressed and stifled by a general luxury and venality ; but Cromwell subdued his country, when this spirit was at its height, by a successful struggle against courtoppression ; and while it was conducted and supported by a set of the greatest geniuses for government the world ever saw embarked together in one common cause.

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