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... respect to Property . - Beg- gary of the Rock Family . - Levellers . -White - boys . - Christening of the Captain . - Brought up to the Tythe Line . - Remarkable Prophecy . -- . 115 CHAPTER II . Attention of the Government to the ...
... respect to Property . - Beg- gary of the Rock Family . - Levellers . -White - boys . - Christening of the Captain . - Brought up to the Tythe Line . - Remarkable Prophecy . -- . 115 CHAPTER II . Attention of the Government to the ...
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... respects , a very extraordinary personage . As he was one of those people , who prefer mo- nologue to dialogue , he talked through the whole journey , and I listened to him with exemplary patience . The first place of any note , on our ...
... respects , a very extraordinary personage . As he was one of those people , who prefer mo- nologue to dialogue , he talked through the whole journey , and I listened to him with exemplary patience . The first place of any note , on our ...
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... , I understand , in the printer's hands , and which I shall not be surprised to find much more exten- sively read than the Captain's own authentic Me- moirs . With respect to the style of the following pages , xxii PREFACE .
... , I understand , in the printer's hands , and which I shall not be surprised to find much more exten- sively read than the Captain's own authentic Me- moirs . With respect to the style of the following pages , xxii PREFACE .
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Thomas Moore. With respect to the style of the following pages , though frequently rambling and ill - constructed , it will , I have no doubt , surprise the reader , as being much more civilized and correct than could be expected from a ...
Thomas Moore. With respect to the style of the following pages , though frequently rambling and ill - constructed , it will , I have no doubt , surprise the reader , as being much more civilized and correct than could be expected from a ...
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... trick acted the part of General Monk to the alphabet , and that the restoration of A to its birth - right is one of the chief achieve- ments for which we are indebted to him . With respect to the origin of the family name , CAPTAIN ROCK .
... trick acted the part of General Monk to the alphabet , and that the restoration of A to its birth - right is one of the chief achieve- ments for which we are indebted to him . With respect to the origin of the family name , CAPTAIN ROCK .
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Page 99 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 83 - So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them: 24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
Page 157 - And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
Page 40 - ... and after a respite of sixteen days should, if they continued obstinate, be delivered to the civil magistrate, to suffer the punishment provided by law. Fortunately for the professors of the ancient faith, Edward died before this code had obtained the sanction of the legislature. By the accession of Mary the power of the sword passed from the hands of one religious party to those of the other; and within a short time Cranmer and his associates perished in the flames which they had prepared to...
Page 46 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 124 - ... fact lay in themselves, and not in the wretches they doomed to the gallows. Let them change their own conduct entirely, and the poor will not long riot. Treat them like men who ought to be as free as yourselves: put an end to that system of religious persecution which for seventy years has divided the kingdom against itself; in these two circumstances lies the cure of insurrection; perform them completely, and you will have an affectionate poor, instead of oppressed and discontented vassals.
Page 92 - Revolution stands unparalleled in the history of the inhabited world. If the wars of England carried on here from the reign of Elizabeth had been waged against a foreign enemy, the inhabitants would have retained their possessions under the established law of civilized nations, and their country have been annexed as a province to the British Empire...
Page 48 - Castle — all good securities against political heterodoxy. " in reducing this country to order and civility, it must soon acquire power, consequence, and riches. The inhabitants will be thus alienated from England ; they will cast themselves into the arms of some foreign power, or perhaps erect themselves into an independent and separate State. Let us rather connive at their disorders ; for a weak and disordered people never can attempt to detach themselves from the crown of England.
Page 101 - ... to be altogether as inconsiderable, as the women and children. Their lands are almost entirely taken from them, and they are rendered incapable of purchasing any more ; and for the little that remains, provision is made by the late act against popery, that it will daily crumble away : to prevent which, some of the most considerable among them are already turned protestants, and so in all probability will many more.
Page 83 - Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.