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OLIVER CROMWELL TUE PROTECTORATE dn DANIEL Wil Ase, IHOMAS NELSON, LONDON AND EDINRUROH. wowersevt [begun Lhain dag | OLIVER CROMWELL” THE PROTECTORATE, By PANIEL WILSON, 7.8.4.s00n, LONDON: TUOMAB NELSON, PATERNOBTER ROW; AND BD1NBUROR, List OF PLATES, vivre ho Fags rserse —Crmuwell ietat Pear I Voaserre, -Nasoly Hight, Paar IIL. ‘Charles T, parting, with Biy Pooy, Puata TV. ‘Otlver Cromwell viewing the dead boty uf Chases 3 Pure ¥, Crommell Pismlesing the Long Parliament, Brave VT. Oliver Crowell wt the denthtod of his Mother, ‘has soerctary Mulzan, Tage. ve 1st am PREFACE nm poriod appoars te have arrived when the principles of Hit first Revolution are to become generally tnilersiond by Tinzlish- cma, andl when the charwaters of those gecat mien who wore the leaulers af the people during that strazele for omr righ, shall be drawn anew, with a juster appreciation of them than heretofary i it has arrived, or is arviving. ‘That snch fustive, however fs stilt no mnehallenged fret, heeomes suffofentty apparent, when we To moinber that a royal emission, composed of men most eminent for etation, rank, or literary fime, and nominated for the ft aionuuont of ber Majesty's Psluce of Wostminater, fax tha New Hrousgs of Darliement aro styled) still site, and—weighing tho ‘laim® of the noble dea,—has conceded to Hampden a niche among Bnghini’s paitfote, bet has refused to Cromwell Ais placa Briong,he kings. Cronrwell can well afford to watt for the revision of that so1- tence, a8 oF ail others, Hie virtues are mostly ao far abovn those ‘of the great majority of Fnglund’s hereditary kings, thot the in- justice, which excludes the greatost of ell her ralers (rom that Yacaut niche between the two Charles Stuarts, is a wrong dons far wots to us than to him. ‘The present century hus witness several attempts to do justion ta the memory af Crorowell. Dr. ‘Vaughan's Reaay on the Character of Cromvall and his Times, ‘was published in 1838. Ttis an impertist, end, upon the whole, 8 just, though guarded estimate of Cromwell charsetor. Tt ‘rized to produce any extensive change in the general apprecia mm of Cromwell, meinly bocausp ite sppesranet in the form of sur cseay, rendered it more.an expression of opinfon thn an argue ment, and 4p left its effeot—dopending as It did on the value previously attached to its anthor's views,--to be developed chiesiy

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