History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656, Opseg 1

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903
 

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Stranica 222 - And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.
Stranica 176 - I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England, as the same is now established, without a King or House of Lords...
Stranica 124 - I wish that all honest hearts may give the glory of this to God alone, to whom indeed the praise of this mercy belongs.
Stranica 124 - which you talk of massacring,' your false and twisted dealing may be a little discovered Well ; your words are, "massacre, destroy and banish." — Good now : give us an instance of one man since my coming into Ireland, not in arms, massacred, destroyed or banished ; concerning the massacre or the destruction of whom justice hath not been done, or endeavoured to be done.
Stranica 224 - The Covenant which I took I own it and adhere to it. Bishops, I care not for them. I never intended to advance their interest. But when the King had granted you all your desires, and you were every one sitting under his vine and under his...
Stranica 149 - We come (by the assistance of God) to hold forth and maintain the lustre and glory of English liberty in a nation where we have an undoubted right to do it; — wherein the people of Ireland (if they listen not to such seducers as you are) may equally participate in all benefits, to use liberty and fortune equally with Englishmen, if they keep out of arms.
Stranica 92 - Your majesty having tried the affections of your people, you are absolved and loose from all rules of government, and may do what power will admit. Your majesty, having tried all ways, shall be acquitted before God and man. And you have an army in Ireland, which you may employ to reduce THIS kingdom to obedience ; for I am confident the Scots cannot hold out five months.
Stranica 44 - You noble Diggers all, stand up now, stand up now, You noble Diggers all, stand up now, The waste land to maintain, seeing Cavaliers by name Your digging do disdain and persons all defame. Stand up now, stand up now.
Stranica 135 - I meddle not with any man's conscience. But if by liberty of conscience, you mean a liberty to exercise the Mass, I judge it best to use plain dealing, and to let you know, Where the Parliament of England have power, that will not he allowed of.
Stranica 284 - If your forces had been in a readiness to have fallen upon the back of Copperspath, it might have occasioned supplies to have come to us. But the only wise God knows what is best. All shall work for Good. Our spirits are comfortable, praised be the Lord, — though our present condition be as it is.

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