Author: C. Cox

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-26

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780282612856

Excerpt from The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Vol. 9 Oblivious of their recent obligations, and of their present distractions, dependency, and helplessness, they resolved to wrest the command from the officers who had reseated them, and insisted that new commissions should be taken out from themselves or their Council of State, and that the whole army should be immediately placed in a proper dependency on the civil power-i. A, on the Rum who had no other right to be a parliament or conne than that which the army had given them. As might have been foreseen, the men of the sword and of action, ia stead of submitting to be turned out themselves, turned out the men of the pen and of speeches and theories. The rough, blunt Desborough explained, in a very few words, the whole logic of the army. Because, said he, the parliament intended to dismiss us, we had a right to dis miss the parliament. This was in effect, the death sentence of the Commonwealth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.