 Relieve the oppressed, hear the groans of poor prisoners in England. Be pleased to reform the abuses of all professions : — and if there be any one that makes many poor to make a few rich,' that suits not a Commonwealth.  A Short History of the English People - Sida 556efter John Richard Green - 1877 - 847 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Timothy Dwight - 1899 - 542 sidor
...thrown in its way by the lawyers in the Commons. " Relieve the oppressed," Cromwell wrote from Dunbar, " hear the groans of poor prisoners. Be pleased to reform...few rich, that suits not a Commonwealth." But the House was seeking to turn the current of public opinion in favor of its own continuance by a great... | |
 | Sir Richard Tangye - 1899 - 316 sidor
...prisoners in England. Be pleased to reform the abuses of all professions, and if there be any one such that makes many poor to make a few rich, that suits not a Commonwealth." But Parliament would do nothing, spite of urgent entreaties and advice ; the Army and the country became... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth - 1900 - 590 sidor
...oppressed," he urged Parliament in his Dunbar despatch ; " reform the abuses of all professions, and if there be any one that makes many poor to make a few rich, that suits not a Commonwealth." Parliament had done something already to meet these complaints. In November, 1650, it had passed an... | |
 | John Morley - 1900 - 620 sidor
...hear the groans of poor prisoners in England. Be pleased to reform the abuses of all professions; and if there be any one that makes many poor to make a few rich, that suits not a Commonwealth." In the course of an interview that Cromwell sought with him, Ludlow hinted pretty plainly the suspicions... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1900 - 364 sidor
...the groans of poor prisoners in England. Be pleased to reform the abuses of all professions : — and if there be any one that makes many poor to make a few rich, that suits not a Commonwealth. If lie that strengthens your servants to fight, please to give you hearts to set upon these things,... | |
 | 1900 - 994 sidor
...hear the groans of poor prisoners in England. Be pleased to reform the abuses of all professions; and if there be any one that makes many poor to make a few rich, that suits not a commonwealth." Although, however, law-reform and church-reform were the immediate ends of government in his eyes,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1901 - 542 sidor
...though under what specious pretences soever. Be pleased to reform the abuses of all professions ; and if there be any one that makes many poor to make a few rich, that suits not a commonwealth." ' It was a fine ideal of the militant Puritan : and so he said to Ludlow that what he designed was... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 526 sidor
...the groans of poor prisoners in England. Be pleased to reform the abuses of all professions : — and if there be any one that makes many poor to make a few rich, 1 that suits not a Commonwealth. If He that strengthens your servants to fight, please to give you... | |
 | 1903 - 648 sidor
...WILLIAM J. GAYNOR, JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Cromwell bluntly said, ' 'If there be any one that makes many poor to make a few rich, that suits not a commonwealth." He condensed into a homely sentence all that had been said on the subject from the time of John Ball... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1903 - 416 sidor
...hear the groans of poor prisoners in England ! Be pleased to reform the abuses of all professions; and if there be any one that makes many poor to make a few rich, that suits not a Commonwealth." • Parliament took the Oct KT.S kint . On October 22 a Committee was appointed to Consenuent consider... | |
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