Prestwich's Respublica, Or, A Display of the Honors, Ceremonies & Ensigns of the Common-wealth Under the Protectorship of Oliver Cromwell: Together with the Names, Armorial Bearings, Flags & Pennons of the Different Commanders of the English, Scotch, Irish Americans and French : and an Alphabetical Roll of the Names and Armorial Bearings of Upwards of Three Hundred Families of the Present Nobility & Gentry of England, Scotland, Ireland, Etc., Etc, Volume 1J. Nichols, 1787 - 279 pagina's |
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Pagina 134 - Cornwall ; and his temper and affections so public, that no accident which happened could make any impressions in him ; and his example kept others from taking any thing ill, or at least seeming to do so. In a word, a brighter courage, and a gentler disposition, were never married together to make the most cheerful and innocent conversation.
Pagina 133 - When now encompass'd round he victor stood, And bath'd his pinnace in his conquering blood, Till all his purple current dry'd and spent, He fell, and made the waves his monument. Where shall the next fam'd Granvile's ashes stand ? The grandsire fills the seas, and thou the land.
Pagina 17 - ... 3. Here is a sceptre, not unlike a staff; for you are to be a staff to the weak and poor; it is of ancient use in this kind. It is said in Scripture that the sceptre shall not depart from Judah.
Pagina 134 - That which would have clouded any victory, and made the loss of others less spoken of, was the death of sir Bevil Greenvil; who was indeed an excellent person, whose activity, interest, and reputation, was the foundation of what had been done in Cornwall ; and his temper and affections so public, that no accident which happened could make any impressions in him ; and his example kept others from taking any thing ill, or at least seeming to do so.
Pagina 18 - I do, in the presence and by the name of God Almighty, promise and swear, that to the uttermost of my power, I will uphold and maintain the true reformed protestant Christian religion in the purity thereof, as it is contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, to the uttermost of my power and understanding, and encourage the profession and professors of the same...
Pagina 179 - OLIVER P. OLIVER, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, to the Commissioners authorised by a late Ordinance for Approbation of Public Preachers, or ' to
Pagina 17 - Second, the Bible, is a book that contains the Holy Scriptures, in which you have the ,happiness to be well versed. This book of Life consists of two Testaments, the Old and New. The first shows Christum velatum; the second, Christum revelatum . Christ veiled and revealed. It is a book of books, and doth contain both precepts and examples for good government.
Pagina 208 - ... in the same form as one before had been on the like occasion for King James, but much more stately and expensive, as the expenses attending the funeral amounted to upwards of sixty thousand pounds. This funeral procession was the last ceremony of honour to the most serene and most illustrious OLIVER CROMWELL, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging; to whom less could not be performed, to the memory of him to whom posterity will...
Pagina 237 - First, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King and Defender of the Faith ; my Lord of Orkney, Governor in chief of Virginia ; and William Gooch, newly appointed Lieutenant Governor.
Pagina 17 - It was of the like use in other kingdoms. Homer, the Greek poet, calls kings and princes sceptre-bearers. " Fourth, the last is a sword, not a military, but a civil sword. It is a sword rather of defence than offence ; not to defend yourself only, but your people also. If I might presume to fix a motto upon this sword, as the valiant lord Talbot had upon his, it should be thus, Ego sum Domini Protectoris, ad protegendum Populum meum ; I am the lord protector's, to protect my people.