A Short Critical Review Of The Political Life Of Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector Of The Commonwealth Of England Scotland And Ireland

Author : John Banks
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483484320
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book A Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland written by John Banks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Comprised Under the Following Heads: His Descent, Alliances, and First Advances to Popularity; With a View of the Motives to the Civil War, and the Sentiments of Mr. Locke and British Parliament Concerning Resistance Lineaments that contradict the general idea they, give' ofhim, and ibew him to be another fort of, a man than they are willing we fhould believe. The prefent age begins to fee through all this, and the name or Cromwell is now thought no dilhonour to the Englifh nation. At this. Favourable conjunclure, therefore, when there are not wanting thole who with our pub lick conduct, in particular with regard to a certain haughty, though contemptible people, were copied from that of this great mant, I (hall venture to draw together fuch paflages of his life, and-range them una derlproper heads, as-may'lhew what he really was, and remove, upon the principles of our heft writers on the pait of liberty, much of that load of calumny which he has hitherto borne. The talk, Iapprehend, will not be difficult. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.