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Updated: June 12, 2025
Opposite Projects Of The Presbyterians And Independents The King Is Brought From Holmby To The Army Independents Driven From Parliament Restored By The Army Origin Of The Levellers King Escapes From Hampton Court, And Is Secured In The Isle Of Wight Mutiny In The Army Public Opinion In Favour Of The King Scots Arm In His Defence The Royalists Renew The War The Presbyterians Assume The Ascendancy Defeat Of The Scots Suppression Of The Royalists Treaty Of Newport The King Is Again Brought To The Army The House Of Commons Is Purified The King's Trial Judgment And Execution Reflections.
The over subtlety of the Spanish ministers made them believe that the Restoration, if accomplished at all, would be brought about by the Levellers and Independents, who would bring back the King with nothing more than a semblance of power. An alliance with them alone, it was thought, would be the safest course for Spain.
Well, Monsieur le Baron, two men alone overthrew the scaffolding of a power that rested on the wigs of Louis XIV., the puffs of the Regency, the frizettes of Louis-XV., and the cushions of Marie Antoinette." "And those two men, those levellers, those two revolutionaries, who were they, Cadenette? that I may doom them, so far as it lies in my power, to public execration."
Restless discontent, disappointed ambition, the jealousy of jarring factions at Court, all found ready instruments in the enthusiasts who revived many of the strange vagaries of doctrine that had been rife during the Civil War. Anabaptists and Millenarians, Fifth-monarchy men and Levellers all were mingled together in the cauldron of religious and political frenzy.
No man I speak not of women, who cannot be supposed so well versed in human nature but no man who has reached the time of life that entitles him to be called by that name, can consort with these disorganizers, who would destroy everything that is sacred these levellers, who would pull down the great, to exalt the little these jacobins, who who "
The levellers propose to subvert the King and parliamentary constitution by a rank and unqualified democracy the friends of its abuses propose to support the King and buy the Parliament, and in the end to overset both, by a rank and avowed corruption.
His new duties kept him much at the Brigadier's side; when not so employed, he was chiefly occupied with Prynne, who was attracted by the turn of the young man's mind, more akin to his own than that of the "hot gospellers," the "levellers," and the professional soldiers by whom he was surrounded.
The country was divided into military districts; these districts were placed under the command of major-generals. Every insurrectionary movement was promptly put down and punished. The fear inspired by the power of the sword in so strong, steady, and expert a hand, quelled the spirit both of Cavaliers and Levellers.
The levellers, therefore, only change and pervert the natural order of things: they load the edifice of society by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground. The Chancellor of France, at the opening of the States, said, in a tone of oratorial flourish, that all occupations were honorable.
In France the kings have always been the most active and the most constant of levellers. When they were strong and ambitious, they spared no pains to raise the people to the level of the nobles; when they were temperate or weak, they allowed the people to rise above themselves. Some assisted the democracy by their talents, others by their vices.
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