Memoirs of Prince Rupert, and the Cavaliers: Including Their Private Correspondence, Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1849 - Great Britain |
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... soldiers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry , -upstarts , enriched by the public plunder , taking possession of the hospitable firesides and hereditary trees of the old gentry , -boys smashing the beautiful windows of ...
... soldiers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry , -upstarts , enriched by the public plunder , taking possession of the hospitable firesides and hereditary trees of the old gentry , -boys smashing the beautiful windows of ...
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... soldier as distinct from the Royalist patriots and statesmen , who in the bitter alternative adopted the King's cause as being , in their judgment , the most conducive to , or least subversive of , the liberties of their country . 2 ...
... soldier as distinct from the Royalist patriots and statesmen , who in the bitter alternative adopted the King's cause as being , in their judgment , the most conducive to , or least subversive of , the liberties of their country . 2 ...
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... soldier of for- tune , and Duke Christian as a Protestant prince , and both as devoted admirers of Queen Elizabeth , fought for the Palatinate with zeal and gallantry . Death deprived her of both these champions ( in 1627 ) ; they died ...
... soldier of for- tune , and Duke Christian as a Protestant prince , and both as devoted admirers of Queen Elizabeth , fought for the Palatinate with zeal and gallantry . Death deprived her of both these champions ( in 1627 ) ; they died ...
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... soldier ; scorning the false and vulgar theory , that the more degraded and mechanical , the more efficient was his ... soldiers of the Pro- testant king prepared for battle : " No sooner had the dawne appeared [ on the field of Leipzig ] ...
... soldier ; scorning the false and vulgar theory , that the more degraded and mechanical , the more efficient was his ... soldiers of the Pro- testant king prepared for battle : " No sooner had the dawne appeared [ on the field of Leipzig ] ...
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... soldiers.3 Even his soldiers ' children were well provided for with schools and rations , and kept in as strict discipline as their fathers , thus furnishing recruits trained to arms and order from their cradle . Each regi- ment had two ...
... soldiers.3 Even his soldiers ' children were well provided for with schools and rations , and kept in as strict discipline as their fathers , thus furnishing recruits trained to arms and order from their cradle . Each regi- ment had two ...
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Page 374 - are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters and such kind of fellows and,' said I, 'their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?
Page 308 - A singular person, whose life was one contradiction. He wrote against Popery, and embraced it ; he was a zealous opposer of the court, and a sacrifice for it ; was conscientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Strafford, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon.
Page 213 - In this time, his house being within little more than ten miles of Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that university ; who found such an immenseness of wit, and such a solidity of judgment in him, so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination, such a vast knowledge, that he was not ignorant in any thing, yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college...
Page 353 - The standard was blown down the same night it had been set up, by a very strong and unruly wind, and could not be fixed again in a day or two, till the tempest was allayed. This was the melancholy state of the king's affairs when the standard was set up.
Page 213 - He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar minds, and was guilty of no other ambition than of knowledge, and to be reputed a lover of all good men ; and that made him too much a contemner of those arts, which must be indulged in the transactions of human affairs.
Page 308 - He wrote against popery, and embraced it; he was a zealous opposer of the court, and a sacrifice for it: was conscientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Strafford, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts, he always hurt himself and his friends ; with romantic bravery, he was always an unsuccessful commander. He spoke for the test act, though a Roman catholic ; and addicted himself to astrology, on the birth-day of true philosophy.
Page 214 - ... he must have been with it obliged to do somewhat else not justifiable. And this he made matter of conscience, since he knew the king made choice of him before other men especially because he thought him more honest than other men. The other was, lest he...
Page 470 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Page 49 - I cannot omit here the hunting, namely, with running houndes, which is the most honourable and noblest sort thereof ; for it is a thievish form of hunting to shoote with gunnes and bowes ; and grey-hound hunting is not so martial a game.
Page 338 - How much I am unsatisfied with the proceedings here, I have at large expressed in several letters. Neither is there wanting daily handsome occasion to retire, were it not for grinning honour. For let occasion be never so handsome, unless a man were resolved to fight on the parliament side, which, for my part, I had rather be hanged, it will be said without doubt, that a man is afraid to fight.