[Footnote 70: This passage may serve as an example of the difficulties and perplexities to which a translator of a history of literature must always be exposed, and this without any fault of the original author. Ab uno disce omnes. M. taine says that cromwell found justification for his policy in Psalm CXIII., which, on looking out, I found to be "an exhortation to praise god for his excellency and for his mercy"--a psalm by which Cromwell's conduct could nowise be justified. I opened then Carlyle's "Cromwell's letters," etc., and saw, in vol. II. part VI. p. 157, the same fact stated, but Psalm CX. mentioned and given--a far more likely psalm to have influenced Cromwell. Carlyle refers to "Ludlow," I. 319, Taine to Guizot, "Portraits Politiques," p. 63, and to Carlyle. In looking in Guizot's volume, 5th ed., 1862, I find that this writer also mentions Psalm CXIII; but on referring finally to the "Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow," printed at Vivay (_sic_) in the canton of Bern, 1698, I read, in Vol. I. p. 319, the sentence, as given above; therefore Carlyle was right.--Tr.] [Footnote 71: "Cromwell's Letters and Speeches," ed. Carlyle, 1866, 3 vols. I. 79.] [Footnote 72: Idem. II. 273.] [Footnote 73: Ibid. III. 373.] [Footnote 74: See his speeches. The style is disjointed, obscure, impassioned, out of the common, like that of a man who is not master of his wits, and who yet sees straight by a sort of intuition.] [Footnote 75: "Cromwell's Letters," I. 265.] [Footnote 76: "A Journal of the Life, etc., of that Ancient, Eminent, and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, George Fox," 6th edition, 1836.] [Footnote 77: Burton's "Parliamentary Diary," I. 46-173. Neal, "History of the Puritans," III.] [Footnote 78: See Neal, "History of the Puritans," II. 418-450.] [Footnote 79: Whitelock's "Memorials," I. 68.] [Footnote 80: Neal, II. 553. Compare with the French Revolution. When the Bastille was demolished, they wrote on the ruins these words: "Ici l'on danse." From this contrast we see the difference between the two systems and the two nations.] [Footnote 81: Neal, "History of the Puritans," II, 555.] [Footnote 82: Macaulay, "History of England," ed. Lady Trevelyan, I. 121.] [Footnote 83: A certain John Denis was publicly whipped for having sung a profane song. Mathias, a little girl, having given some roasted chestnuts to Jeremiah Boosy, and told him ironically that he might give them back to her in Paradise, was ordered to ask pardon three times in church, and to be three days on bread and water in prison. 1660-1670; records of Massachusetts.] [Footnote 84: "Upon the common sense of Scripture," said Major-General Disbrowe, "there are few but do commit blasphemy, as our Saviour puts it in Mark: 'sins, blasphemies; it so, then none without blasphemy.' It was charged upon David and Eli's son, 'thou hast blasphemed, or caused others to blaspheme.'"--Burton's Diary, I. 54.] [Footnote 85: Guizot, "Portraits Politiques," 5th ed. 1862.]