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Excerpt from A Lecture on the Life and Character of Oliver Cromwell: Delivered Before the Young Men's Literary Association of Cleveland; On Thursday Evening, Jan, 28, 1847 Gentlemen, -the lecture of which you request a copy for the press, was prepared amid pressing engagements and with no expecta tion or thought oi' its publication. Had I wished to publish my views of the life and character of Oliver Cromwell, at all, I should have preferred to exhibit them more fully than the limits of a single lecture would permit, and With a larger space for the presentation of the facts and arguments on which those views are based. The lecture was prepared and delivered in thet hope rather of exciting inquiry than of gaining the immediate assent to my views of all who might happen to hear me. It was not to be expected that all minds would be pre pared at once to admit the correctness of a picture of Cromwell, so unlike the horrid caricature - drawn by political and ecclesiastical pm'tisans - from which alone not a few Americans as well as English men have received their impressions of that extraordinary man. But it seemed proper, in a lecture intended solely for the audience to which this was delivered, to ask in behalf of the man who was inti mately associated, in the cause of' civil and religious liberty, with Hampden and who, by his liberal and magnanimous policy, as well as by his pre-eminent abilities, won the confidence, the friendship, and the admiration of Milton, a rehearing - a re-examination of his history in the light of all the facts which have now been made acces sible, and with a proper scrutiny of the statements of prejudiced writers. 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.
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