The Royalists themselves confessed that, in every department of honest industry, the discarded warriors prospered beyond other men ; that none was charged with any theft or robbery ; that none was heard to ask an alms ; and that, if a baker, a mason,... Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 2631849Full view - About this book
| 1849 - 546 pages
...that, like all other soldiers, they would become beggars and marauders, a pest to society, filling the land with misery and crime. But what was the fact...of the Royal Society induced to dabble in science : — " In this, as in every great stir of the human mind, there was doubtless something which might... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 pages
...seen begging in every street, or would be driven by hunger to pillage. But no such result followed. In a few months there remained not a trace indicating...in all probability, one of Oliver's old soldiers. The military tyranny had passed away, but it had left deep and enduring traces in the public mind.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...theft or robbery, that none was heard to ask an alms, and that, if a baker, a mason, or a waggoner attracted notice by his diligence and sobriety, he...was in all probability one of Oliver's old soldiers. The military tyranny had passed away; but it had left deep and enduring traces in the public mind.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 464 pages
...theft or robbery, that none was heard to ask an alms, and that, if a baker, a mason, or a waggoner attracted notice by his diligence and sobriety, he...was in all probability one of Oliver's old soldiers. The military tyranny had passed away ; but it had left deep and enduring traces in the public mind.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...theft or robbery, that none was heard to ask an alms, and that, if a baker, a mason, or a waggoner attracted notice by his diligence and sobriety, he...was in all probability one of Oliver's old soldiers. The military tyranny had passed away ; but it had left deep and enduring traces in the public mind.... | |
| John Angell James - 1849 - 302 pages
...none was heard to ask an alms, and that if a mason, or a baker, or a waggoner, attracted notice by diligence and sobriety, he was in all probability one of Oliver's old soldiers."* All history may be challenged for the parallel to this.f Such testimony proves that if it be the tendency... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 pages
...theft or robbery, that none was heard to ask an alms, and that, if a baker, a mason, or a waggoner attracted notice by his diligence and sobriety, he...was in all probability one of Oliver's old soldiers. a license. When he died, if his domains descended to an infant, the sovereign was guardian, and was... | |
| Charles James Fox Binney - 1852 - 326 pages
...charged with any theft or robbery, that none were known to ask alms, and that if a baker, mason, or wagoner attracted notice by his diligence and sobriety,...in all probability one of Oliver's old soldiers." This is really worth more in our Republican country, than all the coats of arms preserved of the Prentice,... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1853 - 240 pages
...theft or robbery, that none was heard to ask an alms, and that, if a baker, a mason, or a waggoner attracted notice by his diligence and sobriety, he...in all probability one of Oliver's old soldiers." Adam Brooke was one of these veterans. Two years before the army was broken up, he, however, had come... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1855 - 540 pages
...royalists themselves confessed that, in every department of honest industry, the discarded warrior prospered beyond other men, that none was charged...in all probability one of Oliver's old soldiers." BOOK TWO, CHRISTIANITY THE BASIS OF INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY : A FEW WORDS ON... | |
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