Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... sword . BUTLER'S Hudibras . THERE is a handsome parish church in the town of Woodstock , -I am told so at least , for I never saw it , having scarce time , when at the place , to view the mag- nificence of Blenheim , its painted halls ...
... sword . BUTLER'S Hudibras . THERE is a handsome parish church in the town of Woodstock , -I am told so at least , for I never saw it , having scarce time , when at the place , to view the mag- nificence of Blenheim , its painted halls ...
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... sword . This respectable , but least numerous part of the audience , were such decent per- sons as had adopted the Presbyterian form of faith , renouncing the liturgy and hierarchy of the Church of England , and living under the tuition ...
... sword . This respectable , but least numerous part of the audience , were such decent per- sons as had adopted the Presbyterian form of faith , renouncing the liturgy and hierarchy of the Church of England , and living under the tuition ...
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... sword in vain ? -Citizens , will you not help your pastor ? -Worthy Aldermen , will you see me strang- led on the pulpit stairs by this man of buff and Be- lial ? -But lo , I will overcome him , and cast his cords from me . " As ...
... sword in vain ? -Citizens , will you not help your pastor ? -Worthy Aldermen , will you see me strang- led on the pulpit stairs by this man of buff and Be- lial ? -But lo , I will overcome him , and cast his cords from me . " As ...
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... sword upon thy thigh , O most mighty , with thy glory and thy majesty and in thy majesty ride prosperously . " - Upon this theme he commenced one of those wild declamations common at the period , in which men were accustomed to wrest ...
... sword upon thy thigh , O most mighty , with thy glory and thy majesty and in thy majesty ride prosperously . " - Upon this theme he commenced one of those wild declamations common at the period , in which men were accustomed to wrest ...
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... sword was forged , and tempered , and welded , and grinded , and polished . When you were , as I said before , making whittles for false priests , and daggers for dissolute G - d d - n - me ca- valiers , to cut the people of England's ...
... sword was forged , and tempered , and welded , and grinded , and polished . When you were , as I said before , making whittles for false priests , and daggers for dissolute G - d d - n - me ca- valiers , to cut the people of England's ...
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Page 106 - ... speaker that ever perplexed an audience. It has been long since said by the historian that a collection of the Protector's speeches would make, with a few exceptions, the most nonsensical book in the world; but he ought to have added that nothing could be more nervous, concise, and intelligible than what he really intended should be understood. It was also remarked of Cromwell that, though born of a good family, both by father and mother, and although he had the usual opportunities of education...