 | Mark Noble - 1784 - Liczba stron: 534
...into, or from Scotland. It is more certain that Oliver averred, that he faw a gigantic figure, which came and opened the curtains of his bed, and told him that he fhould be the greateft perfon in the kingdom, but did not mention the word king, and though he was... | |
 | 1785 - Liczba stron: 680
...into or from Scotland. It is more certain that Oliver averred, thai he faw a gigantic figure, which came and opened the curtains of his bed, and told him that he Iliould be the greateft perfon in the kingdom, but did not mention the word K¡ug: and though he was... | |
 | John Britton - 1808 - Liczba stron: 896
...(and mentioned it oi'ten, when he was in the height of his glory) that he saw a gigantic figure, which came and opened the curtains of his bed, and told him that he should be ' the greatest person in the kingdom,' but did not mention the word King. Though informed of the folly of... | |
 | Benjamin Brook - 1813 - Liczba stron: 532
...Oliver was a boy at school, " he averred that, when lying on his bed, he saw a gigantic figure, which came and opened the curtains of his bed, and told him that he should hereafter be the greatest person in the kingdom, but did not mention the word king; and though he was... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1822 - Liczba stron: 622
...height of his glory,' * Noble. that, on a certain night in childhood, he ' saw a gigantic figure, which came and opened the curtains of his bed, and told him that he should be the greatest person in the kingdom, but did Jiot mention the word king ;' and, continues the Reverend narrator,... | |
 | People - 1845 - Liczba stron: 348
...of himself, that one night, whilst still a child, a OLIVER CROMWELL. 17 gigantic figure drew nside the curtains of his bed, and told him that he should be the greatest man in all England. The story may be worthy of as much credence as Cromwell could have wished... | |
 | 1846 - Liczba stron: 396
...recounting these juvenile adventures of his hero, " that Oliver averred that he saw a gigantic figure which came and opened the curtains of his bed, and told him that he should be the greatest person in the kingdom, but did not mention the word king; and, though he [that is, Oliver,... | |
 | John Richard Andrews (barrister.) - 1870 - Liczba stron: 482
...Beard, at the request of his father, for daring to dream one night that he saw a gigantic figure which came and opened the curtains of his bed, and told him that he should be the greatest person in the kingdom. Until we hear of Oliver at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1616,... | |
 | 1873 - Liczba stron: 670
...young Oliver was (logged by the master, Dr. Beard, for dreaming that " he saw a gigantic figure, which came and opened the curtains of his bed, and told him that he should be 'the greatest person in the kingdom.'" Further evidence of the ambitious aspirations of his youth is afforded... | |
 | 1883 - Liczba stron: 872
...other idle tales, says : ' It is more cer tain that Oliver averred that he saw a gigantic figure which came and opened the curtains of his bed, and told him that he should be the greatest person in the kingdom, but did not mention the word king. * Oliver Cromwell: The Man and His... | |
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Mark Noble, Memoirs of the Protectoral House of Cromwell, 2 edit., Birmingham 1787, Vol. I, s. 94: It is more certain that Oliver averred that he saw a gigantic figure wich came and opened the curtains of his bed and told him that he should be the 
