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" Peace ; and would passionately profess, " that the very agony of the war, and the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom did and must endure, took his sleep from him, and would shortly break his heart. "
Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham - Page 413
by Englishmen - 1836
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1843 - 488 pages
...passionately profess, That the very agony of the war, and the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom did and must endure, took his sleep from him, and would shortly break his heart." The death of those two excellent men removed impediments to the violent proceedings which followed...
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...passionately profess, " that the very agony of the war, and the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom did and must endure, took his sleep from...pretend to think, " that he was so much enamoured of peace, that he would have been glad the king should have bought it at any price ;" which was a most...
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Thoughts on wheels. The climbing boy's soliloquies. Songs of Zion, being ...

James Montgomery - 1845 - 522 pages
...1' and would profess that the very agony of the war, and the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom did and must endure, took his sleep from him, and would shortly break his heart." CLARENDON'S History, vol. li. part i. WAR, civil war, was raging like a flood, England lay weltering...
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England in the seventeenth century; or, A history of the reigns of the house ...

England - 1845 - 478 pages
...passionately profess, that the very agony of the war, and the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom did and must endure, took his sleep from him, and would shortly break his heart." The death of those two excellent men removed impediments to the violent proceedings which followed...
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The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People, as Well as ...

George Lillie Craik - 1848 - 860 pages
...passionately profess, • That the very agony •of the war, and the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom did and must endure, took his sleep from him, and would shortly break his heart."" At Newbury, Charles lost two other lords, i liu Karl of Sunderland, who, having no command in tin4...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 6

Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...passionately profess that the very agony of the war, and the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom did and must endure, took his sleep from him, and would shortly break his heart. The incomparable young man fell in the first onset at the battle of Newbury, Sept. 30, 1643, in the...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...ingerminate the word ' Peace ! Peace !' and would passionately profess that the very agony of the war, and the calamities and desolation of the Kingdom did and...sleep from him, and would shortly break his heart! " In the morning before the battle, as 'always upon action he was very cheerful, and put himself into...
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The Great Civil War of the Times of Charles I and Cromwell

Richard Cattermole - 1852 - 412 pages
...word ' Peace ! Peace !' and would passionately profess, that the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom did and must endure, took his sleep from...or pretend to think, that he was so much enamoured of peace, that he would have been glad the king should have bought it at any price; which was a most...
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Women of Christianity: Exemplary for Acts of Piety and Charity

Julia Kavanagh - 1852 - 524 pages
...passionately declare, "that the very agony of the war, and the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom did and must endure, took his sleep from him, and would shortly break his heart." He was not to die thus : on the morning of the battle of Newbury, he had a strong presentiment of his...
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Lord Falkland. Lord Capell

Lady Theresa Lewis - 1852 - 424 pages
...pas" sionately profess that the very agony of the war, and " the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom " did and must endure, took his sleep from him, and " would shortly break his heart." It must have been a welcome task to Lord Falkland, when, on the 28th of January (1642-3), it fell to...
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