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Page 18
... army . They laugh at the Scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals fleecing their districts ; sol- diers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry ; upstarts , enriched by the public plunder , taking possession of the ...
... army . They laugh at the Scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals fleecing their districts ; sol- diers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry ; upstarts , enriched by the public plunder , taking possession of the ...
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... army in which a King is known to be posted is to approach pretty near to regicide . Charles , too , it should always be remembered , was put to death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had ...
... army in which a King is known to be posted is to approach pretty near to regicide . Charles , too , it should always be remembered , was put to death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had ...
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... army rose against the Parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in their eagerness to be revenged on the Independents , sacrificed their ...
... army rose against the Parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in their eagerness to be revenged on the Independents , sacrificed their ...
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... army that Europe had ever seen , who tram- pled down King , Church , and Aristocracy , who , in the short intervals of domestic se- dition and rebellion , made the name of Eng- land terrible to every nation on the face of the earth ...
... army that Europe had ever seen , who tram- pled down King , Church , and Aristocracy , who , in the short intervals of domestic se- dition and rebellion , made the name of Eng- land terrible to every nation on the face of the earth ...
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... army ; the whole year a march . Such was the state of society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the culti- vation of the earth is in a very different situation . The ...
... army ; the whole year a march . Such was the state of society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the culti- vation of the earth is in a very different situation . The ...
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