Cromwell And His Times A Lecture Etc

Author : P. Van Trump
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ISBN 13 : 9781331265214
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Cromwell and His Times written by P. Van Trump and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cromwell and His Times: Lecture Delivered Before the American Union Academy of Literature, Art and Science, at Washington City, on Monday Evening, March 28, 1870 I have selected as the theme of the lecture this evening, one of the most important epochs in the annals of English history, and one of the most extraordinary men of his age, to wit: the Great Civil War in England, and the hero of its achievements, as well as the arbiter of its results, Oliver Cromwell. There is something solemn, and at the same time instructive, or ought to be, in the contemplation of these great periods in the history of the civil life of the human race, in its lowest as well as in its highest types of organization, when, in the providence of God, kings are dethroned, governments are broken up, old dynasties are swept away, and new ones inaugurated, through the fierce passions of the People, whether aroused by the deep sense of political wrongs, or they are hurled against each other by the phrenzy of religious antagonism. These great historic periods stand like beacons along the coast of Time, shedding their clear and warning light upon the great highway of nations, exposing the rocks and shoals on which have split many a goodly bark, freighted with the highest hopes and the dearest rights of millions of human beings. The English Revolution of 1640, was intensified by a combination of both the religious and the political elements. In this characteristic, it stands in a line of partial coincidence with its greater and more horrid successor, the French Revolution. But the similitude terminates with the advent of the two great struggles. Though similar in the causes which produced them, how widely different in their results, and in the motives and feelings of the great intellects which controlled, or were controlled by them! How radically different, too, were the two great master-spirits who finally brought them to a close, by the irresistible power of their own self-will, in the objects which they had ill view, and in the genius, as well as in the moral tone of their individuality, Cromwell and Napoleon! The French Revolution, in the philosophy of its devolution, was unlike any other civil commotion, which preceded it, in the history of the world. It was, in some things, the most hopeful and promising in its commencement; the most horrid and bloody in its progress; and the most unmixed and contemptibly despotic in its conclusion. Indeed, for the unmitigated furor of its prosecution, and the naked and aimless terror of its details, it was one of the most extraordinary struggles of any recorded in the annals of mankind. 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.