The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, to which is Added an Historical View of the Affairs of Ireland, Tập 5

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Clarendon Press, 1826
 

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Trang 125 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Trang 397 - And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us : wherefore then be ye angry for this matter ? have we eaten at all of the king's cost ? or hath he given us any gift...
Trang 186 - Waller), that though the King's troops prevailed in the charge, and routed those they charged, they never rallied themselves again in order, nor could be brought to make a second charge again the same day : . . . whereas Cromwell's troops, if they prevailed, or though they were beaten and routed, presently rallied again, and stood in good order till they received new orders.
Trang 185 - That difference was observed all along in the discipline of the King's troops and of those which marched under the command of Fairfax and Cromwell...
Trang 121 - Irish nation which should be taken prisoners, either at sea or land ; which was not taken notice of, or indeed known to the king, till long after ; though the earl of Warwick, and the officers under him at sea, had, as often as he met with any Irish frigates, or such freebooters as sailed under their commission, taken all the seamen who became prisoners to them of that nation, and bound them back to back, and thrown them overboard into the sea, without distinction of their condition, if they were...
Trang 226 - God may in due time avenge his own cause. Though I must avow to all my friends, that he that will stay with me at this time must expect and resolve either to die for a good cause, or (which is worse) to live as miserable in maintaining it as the violence of insulting rebels can make him.
Trang 533 - ... they who, upon pretence of Christian liberty, shall oppose any lawful power, or the lawful exercise of it, whether it be civil or ecclesiastical, resist the ordinance of God. And for their publishing of such opinions, or maintaining of such practices, as are contrary to the light of nature, or to the known principles of Christianity, whether concerning faith, worship, or conversation...
Trang 482 - It might reasonably be concluded that this wild and barbarous depopulation would even extirpate all that learning, religion, and loyalty which had so eminently flourished there; and that the succeeding ill husbandry and unskilful cultivation would have made it fruitful only in ignorance, profanation, atheism, and rebellion ; but by God's wonderful blessing, the goodness and richness of that soil could not be made barren by all that stupidity and negligence. It choked the weeds and would not suffer...
Trang 482 - Westminster, forming a new catechism and scheme of religion) ever ventured to make any answer to it ; nor is it indeed to be answered — but must remain to the world's end as a monument of the learning, courage, and loyalty of that excellent place, against the highest malice and tyranny that were ever exercised in or over any nation...
Trang 252 - Though the loss of Bristol be a great blow to me, yet your surrendering it as you did, is of so much affliction to me, that it makes me not only forget the consideration of that place, but is likewise the greatest trial of my constancy that hath yet befallen me ; for what is to be done, after one that is so near me as you are, both in blood and friendship, submits himself to so mean an action...

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