 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1867 - 524 pages
...worship thing went well; there was freedom and reformation." Mistress Lucy Hutchinson acknowledged that he had much natural greatness, and well became the place he had usurped, and that " his personal courage and magnanimity upheld him against all enemies and mp (contents." And... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1868 - 520 pages
...worship, things went well; there was freedom and reformation." Mistress Lucy Hutchinson acknowledged that he had much natural greatness, and well became the place he had usurped, and that " his personal courage and magnanimity upheld him against all enemies and malcontents." And... | |
 | Elizabeth Penrose - 1869 - 528 pages
...for principality, which suited no better with any of them than scarlet did the ape. Cromwell himsell had much natural greatness, and well became the place...with these things; but the rest were insolent fools." The truth was, that Mrs. Fleetwood's principles of republicanism suited better than those of the Protector's... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1873 - 798 pages
...better name. His wife and children too, were setting up for principality, which suited no better with any of them than scarlet! on the ape ; only, to speak the truth of himselfe, he had much naturall grealnesse, and well became the place he had usurp'd. His daughter Fleetewood... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Gardiner - 1874 - 404 pages
...England, his court at Whitehall was neither luxurious nor extravagant. His very enemies confessed " he had much natural greatness, and well became the place he had usurped." Nor did foreign ambassadors ever find him less than the peer of kings in the dignity of his bearing... | |
 | Charles Bruce - 1875 - 636 pages
...a better name. His wife and children were setting up for principality, which suited no better with any of them than scarlet on the ape; only, to speak...were two debauched, ungodly Cavaliers. Richard was a peasant in his nature, yet gentle and virtuous, but became not greatness. His court was iull of sin... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner, James Surtees Phillpotts, B. Cordery (Meriton) - 1876 - 420 pages
...England, his court at Whitehall was neither luxurious nor extravagant. His very enemies confessed " he had much natural greatness, and well became the place he had usurped." Nor did foreign ambassadors ever find him less than the peer of kings in the dignity of his bearing... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1877 - 196 pages
...hundred and fifty godly officers out of the army, with whom many of the religious soldiers went oft, and in their room abundance of the king's dissolute...were two debauched, ungodly cavaliers. Richard was a peasant in his nature, yet gentle and virtuous, but became not greatness. H1s court was full of sin... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1877 - 528 pages
...worship thing went well ; there was freedom and reformation." Mistress Lucy Hutchinson acknowledged that he had much natural greatness, and well became the place he had usurped, and that " his personal courage and magnanimity upheld him against all enemies and malcontents." And... | |
 | Emily Cooper - 1877 - 560 pages
...acknowledges in her memoirs that although some of his family could not well conform to their new rank, ' he had much natural greatness, and well became the place he had usurped.' Bub it was necessary for him to confirm his power by the sanction of a Parliament, and yet the nation... | |
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His wife and children were setting up for principality, which suited no better with any of them than scarlet on the ape ; only, to speak the truth of himself, he had much natural greatness, and well became the place he had usurped. 
