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

Naslovnica
Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903
 

Ostala izdanja - Prikaži sve

Uobičajeni izrazi i fraze

Popularni odlomci

Stranica 227 - 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 127 - 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 127 - 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 22 - I'd weep the world to such a strain, As it should deluge once again ; " But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies, More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes ; I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds.
Stranica 152 - 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 95 - 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 152 - 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 138 - 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 287 - 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.
Stranica 127 - 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 ; und that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret.

Bibliografski podaci