Category: Biographies
OLIVER CROMWELL DICTATING TO JOHN MILTON 284 The letter to the Duke of Savoy to stop the persecution of the Protestants of Piedmont, 1655. Photogravure from an engraving by Sartain after Newenham.
I was born at Wotton, in the County of Surrey, about twenty minutes past two in the morning, being on Tuesday the 31st and last of October, 1620, after my father had been marrie...
4. did. This was cold entertainment, but our journey after was colder, therest of the way having been (as they told us) covered with snow since the Creation; no man remembered it to be without; and because, by the frequent snowing, the tracks are cont...
7. cxviii. 24, requiring us to be thankful and rejoice, as indeed we had19th July, 1661. We tried our Diving-Bell, or engine, in the water dock at Deptford, in which our curator continued half an hour under water; it was made of cast lead, let down...
5. did. The last time he had been at church (which was at Greenwich), IThe day before he died, he called to me: and in a more serious manner than usual, told me that for all I loved him so dearly I should give my house, land, and all my fine things...
2. VOLUME II.The two chief diarists of the age of Charles the Second are, _mutatis mutandis_, not ill characterized by the remark of a wicked wit upon the brothers Austin. "John Austin," it...
6. ii. 13, 14, condoling the breach made in the public joy by the lamentedThis night was suppressed a bloody insurrection of some FIFTH-MONARCHY ENTHUSIASTS. Some of them were examined at the Council the next day; but could say nothing to extenuate th...
1. VOLUME I.OLIVER CROMWELL DICTATING TO JOHN MILTON 284 The letter to the Duke of Savoy to stop the persecution of the Protestants of Piedmont, 1655. Photogravure from an engraving by Sart...