 I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to...  Knight's Penny Magazine - Page 921846Full view - About this book
 | Goldwin Smith - Great Britain - 1867 - 342 pages
...Cromwell says in his despatch : " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much...which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret." This excuse is not sufficient, if any innocent persons were involved in the slaughter ; no excuse can... | |
 | John Stoughton - Great Britain - 1867 - 586 pages
...more to do with Cromwell's deeds in Ireland than cruelty of disposition. " I am persuaded," he says, " that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...to prevent the effusion of blood for the future." No one can help seeing in these words a revengeful justice excited by the Popish massacres of 1641,... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1867 - 594 pages
...more to do with Cromwell's deeds in Ireland than cruelty of disposition. " I am persuaded," he says, " that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...to prevent the effusion of blood for the future." No one can help seeing in these words a revengeful justice excited by the Popish massacres of 1641,... | |
 | François Guizot - Great Britain - 1868 - 648 pages
...for the Barbadoes. 1 believe all their friars were knocked on the head promiscuously. I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret. "PS — The following officers and soldiers were slain at the storming of Tredah : — The governor,... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Statesmen - 1868 - 338 pages
...Cromwell says in his despatch : ' I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much...which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret/ This excuse is not sufficient, if any innocent persons were involved in the slaughter ; no excuse can... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1869 - 436 pages
...Tower were all spared, as to their lives only ; and shipped likewise for the Barbadoes. I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret. The officers and soldiers of this Garrison were the flower of their army. And their great expectation... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1870 - 370 pages
...Tower were all spared, as to their lives only ; and shipped likewise for the Barbadoes. I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret. The officers and soldiers of this Garrison were the flower of their army. And their great expectation... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - British - 1872 - 696 pages
...made two years before, between Lord Clanrickarde and the Leinster ' I am persuaded,' wrote Cromwell, ' that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise could not but work remorse and regret." History, ever eloquent in favour of the losing cause — history,... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1881 - 1104 pages
...bitterness will save much effusion of blood, through the goodness of God." And again : "I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds of such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and reyrct." It was late at night before the... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - British - 1873 - 668 pages
...Nicholas Whyte's Castle of Leixleap, several of those that survived " I am persuaded," wrote Cromwell, " that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood in the future, which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise could not but work... | |
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