Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847Various
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
Various
England -- Periodicals; Scotland -- Periodicals
floor of the House, and 'clapping on his hat,' and occasionally
'stamping the floor with his feet,' begins a discourse which no
man can report! He says--Heavens! he is heard saying: 'It is
not fit that you should sit here any longer!' You have sat too
long here for any good you have been doing lately, 'You shall
now give place to better men! Call them in!' adds he, briefly,
to Harrison, in way of command; and some 'twenty or thirty'
grim musketeers enter, with bullets in their snaphances; grimly
prompt for orders; and stand in some attitude of carry arms
there. Veteran men: men of might and men of war, their faces
are as the faces of lions, and their feet are swift as the roes
upon the mountains; not beautiful to honourable gentlemen at
this moment!
"'You call yourselves a Parliament,' continues my Lord General,
in clear blaze of conflagration. 'You are no Parliament! Some
of you are drunkards,' and his eye flashes on poor Mr Chalmer,
an official man of some value, addicted to the bottle; 'some of
you are'--and he glares into Henry Martin and the poor Sir
Peter, who rose to order, lewd livers both--'living in open
contempt of God's, commandments. Following your own greedy
appetites, and the devil's commandments. Corrupt, unjust
persons,' and here I think he glanced 'at Sir Bulstrode
Whitlocke, one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal, giving
him and others very sharp language, though he named them not.'
'Corrupt, unjust persons, scandalous to the profession of the
Gospel:' how can you be a Parliament for God's people? Depart,
I say, and let us have done with you. In the name, of God--go!
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