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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903

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Página 176 - I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England, as the same is now established, without a King or House of Lords...
Página 134 - Town is now so in your power, that of the former inhabitants, I believe scarce one in twenty can challenge any property in their houses. Most of them are run away, and many of them killed in this service. And it were to be wished, that an honest people would come and plant here...
Página 19 - I'd weep the world to such a strain, As it should deluge once again ; " But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies, More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes ; I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds.
Página 149 - We come, by the assistance of God, to hold forth and maintain the lustre and glory of English Liberty in a Nation where we have an. undoubted right to do it ; wherein the People of Ireland (if they listen not to such seducers as you are), may equally participate in all benefits ; to use liberty and fortune equally with Englishmen, if they keep out of arms.
Página 133 - ... better to this place than so great a ruin, hoping the Town might be of more use to you and your Army, yet God would not have it so; but, by an unexpected providence, in His righteous justice, brought a just judgment upon them; causing them to become a prey to the soldier who in their piracies had made preys of so many families, and now with their bloods to answer the cruelties which they had exercised upon the lives of divers poor Protestants ! Two 'instances' of which I have been lately acquainted...
Página 124 - I wish that all honest hearts may give the glory of this to God alone, to whom indeed the praise of this mercy belongs.
Página 124 - which you talk of massacring,' your false and twisted dealing may be a little discovered Well ; your words are, "massacre, destroy and banish." — Good now : give us an instance of one man since my coming into Ireland, not in arms, massacred, destroyed or banished ; concerning the massacre or the destruction of whom justice hath not been done, or endeavoured to be done.
Página 44 - You noble Diggers all, stand up now, stand up now, You noble Diggers all, stand up now, The waste land to maintain, seeing Cavaliers by name Your digging do disdain and persons all defame. Stand up now, stand up now.
Página 149 - We come (by the assistance of God) to hold forth and maintain the lustre and glory of English liberty in a nation where we have an undoubted right to do it; — wherein the people of Ireland (if they listen not to such seducers as you are) may equally participate in all benefits, to use liberty and fortune equally with Englishmen, if they keep out of arms.
Página 92 - Your majesty having tried the affections of your people, you are absolved and loose from all rules of government, and may do what power will admit. Your majesty, having tried all ways, shall be acquitted before God and man. And you have an army in Ireland, which you may employ to reduce THIS kingdom to obedience ; for I am confident the Scots cannot hold out five months.

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