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" I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. "
Southey's Common-place Book: Special collections - Page 35
by Robert Southey - 1850
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Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 340 pages
...ye . . . mistaken!': before the battle of Dunbar, in July 1650, Cromwell implored his Scottish foes 'I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.' The Scots ignored his request, and were slaughtered. the excommunication of Dr Döllinger: Döllinger...
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Favourite Wisdom

Deborah Cassidi - Religion - 2003 - 196 pages
...judgement in science stands on the edge of error. In the end the words were said by Oliver Cromwell: 'I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.' I owe it as a scientist and as a human being to the many members of my family who died at Auschwitz,...
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Question of Truth: Christianity and Homosexuality

Gareth Moore - Religion - 2003 - 322 pages
...often learn most from our opponents. 1.5 So we need to accept that we may be wrong. Cromwell wrote: 'I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken' (Letter to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 3 August 1650, in Thomas Carlyle, Oliver...
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H.R. 958, H.R. 959 and H.R. 984: Legislative Hearing Before the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife, and Oceans - Nature - 2003 - 44 pages
...before the swearing-in ceremony of 1995. It was from Oliver Cromwell's last moments where he said, I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you might be mistaken. So that phrase was used to preserve the Merchant Marine, Fisheries Committee and...
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When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today

Harvey Cox - Religion - 2004 - 218 pages
...wrong. Oliver Cromwell famously wrote in 1650 in his letter to the Assembly of the Church of Scotland, "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." Three hundred years later Judge Learned Hand said that he wished those words could be inscribed "over...
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Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-volume Literary Education : Essays on ...

Michael Dirda - Literary Collections - 2005 - 566 pages
...living. Perhaps I exaggerate, and maybe I'm even wrong. (As Cromwell said, in one of my favorite sayings, "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.") Literature, or at least storytelling, will certainly survive, gradually take on new forms. Maybe hypertext...
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Ethical Knowledge, Volume 8

Joel J. Kupperman - Philosophy - 2002 - 168 pages
...always wrong or that abortion is sometimes justified. Cromwell's words to the Scotch Presbyterians, 'I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken', plainly have more weight addressed to someone who proclaims the wrongness of abortion than to someone...
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The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s ...

Norman Podhoretz - American essays - 2004 - 498 pages
...dismissing Warshow's avowal of admiration for the book, and ending with an admonition from Cromwell: "I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." since he already had a pretty good idea of what a piece by me about him would say. "You wanna bet?"...
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An Unholy Alliance: The Sacred and Modern Sports

Robert J. Higgs, Michael Braswell - Religion - 2004 - 438 pages
...family died, he posed a question of science and of any group claiming "absolute knowledge and power," "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken?"4 One wonders if Oliver Cromwell, who asked the question centuries earlier, as Bronowski...
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The Pocket Book of British Patriotism: The History of Great Britain and the ...

George Courtauld - History - 2005 - 76 pages
...just power." The Rump Parliament THE COMMONWEALTH 1649 - 60 1649-1650 Cromwell's conquest of Ireland: "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." Cromwell to the Kirk of Scotland, 1650 1650-1652 Cromwell's conquest of Scotland 1651 The Battle of...
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