How To Use Oliver cromwell In A Sentence
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Oliver Cromwell commandeered the school for his military government in Scotland, and is even reputed to have fired on Edinburgh Castle from the grounds in 1650 before turning it into a military hospital.
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In the fall of 1861, the Richmond Dispatch launched an assault on the American Tract Society for issuing Oliver Cromwell's Bible for the use of Yankee troops, condemning the implicit sanction given to ‘the whole crowd of pious regicides.’
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Those regicides who were already dead, such as John Bradshaw and Oliver Cromwell, had vengeance wreaked on their disinterred corpses.
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But, really—I could once again quote Oliver Cromwell in dismissing the Long Parliament, You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately…Depart, I say; & let us have done with you.
Archive 2009-03-29
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In 1651, Oliver Cromwell's army defeated the forces of Charles II at Worcester.
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Its commander-in-chief was General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell was put in charge of the cavalry.
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Nor was it any triumph of democracy: in 1653 the new boss, Oliver Cromwell, sent Parliament (such as it was) packing, nominated his own poodle body, and when the poodles yapped kicked them out too.
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Oliver Cromwell, whose body they hung on their Tyburn Gallows because he had found the Christian Religion inexecutable in this country, remains to me by far the remarkablest Governor we have had here for the last five centuries or so.
Past and Present
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Fifty years of civil war, a republic led by Oliver Cromwell, and the restoration of the monarchy.
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In fact, except Oliver Cromwell, King William, a few gentlemen who had the misfortune to be executed or exiled for high treason, and every dissenting minister that he has or can find occasion to notice, there are hardly any persons mentioned who are not stigmatized as knaves or fools, differing only in degrees of "turpitude" and "imbecility".
Famous Reviews
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Oliver Cromwell came to Stamford in 1643, following the retreat of the Cavalier army who had tried to capture Peterborough.
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Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn - gallows, as the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable, -- yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed.
Past and Present
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The radicals wanted it all - these were the Independents and Oliver Cromwell was emerging as their leader.
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Fifteen or twenty years ago, when I was helping at the foundation of the Irish Literary Society in London, we were violently disparaged by newspapers and private persons for having praised Oliver Cromwell and the Danes, while we dispraised Thomas Davis.
Later Articles and Reviews
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In 1651 Oliver Cromwell's army defeated Royalist forces at the Battle of Worcester.
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In Oliver Cromwell's Puritan England, of course, this way of thinking was regarded as almost pornographically decadent.
Five of the best baroque palaces in Europe
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Every one remembers how George Fox saw a "waft" of death go out against Oliver Cromwell when he met him riding at Hampton Court the day before he was prostrated with his fatal illness.
Real Ghost Stories
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One thing I will never do," said Oliver Cromwell, law-clerk, swart and lusty, in green stockings and other sartor-resartus trifles; "one thing I will never do -- and that is, take human life!
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
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The symbolism of the pole decorated with ribbons and garlands was deeply offensive to the Puritans and maypoles were forbidden by Oliver Cromwell's parliament from 1644.
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Many Protestants died of the fevers because of their objection to taking a drug associated with papism - Oliver Cromwell is thought to have been amongst them.
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The speeches of Oliver Cromwell have a formidable reputation for prolixity, confusion, and excessive tediousness; yet we have not, for our own part, found these volumes to be of the dry and scarce readable description which their title foreboded; and we would caution others not to be deterred by any fears of this nature from their perusal.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
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In England there were leaders like Oliver Cromwell with his New Model Army and radical groups like the Levellers.
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Oliver Cromwell, whose body they hung on their Tyburn gallows because he had found the Christian Religion inexecutable in this country, remains to me by far the remarkablest Governor we have had here for the last five centuries or so.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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The appointment of Oliver Cromwell as a feoffee does not appear in any of the documents now remaining with the governors of the charity.
Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850
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Most of the artefacts recovered during the excavations relate to the English Civil War sieges between 1644 and 1649 when Royalists held the castle against Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentarians.
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he died in 1655 at sea between Hispaniola and Jamaica, while serving as a commissioner for Oliver Cromwell on a military expedition to retake the island of Hispaniola.
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In England there were leaders like Oliver Cromwell with his New Model Army and radical groups like the Levellers.
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Released on bail, Lilburne, who from prison had issued an "Agreement of the Free People," calling for annual parliaments elected by manhood suffrage and the free election of unendowed church ministers in every parish, now published an "Impeachment for High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his son-in-law, James Ireton," and declared that monarchy was preferable to a military despotism.
The Rise of the Democracy
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Oliver Cromwell came to Stamford in 1643, following the retreat of the Cavalier army who had tried to capture Peterborough.
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It has been a good year for latter-day admirers of Oliver Cromwell, the only successful antimonarchist in English history.
The Monarchy Will Prevail
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When sitting for his portrait, Oliver Cromwell ordered his portraitist, who wanted to pretty Cromwell up, to paint him ‘warts and all.’
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Parson's charity, Oliver Cromwell as a feoffee of, 465.
Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 1, November, 1849-May, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn gallows, the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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That is why Oliver Cromwell permitted King Charles the First to be dressed like a king and to act like a king up until the final moments when his head was chopped off.