Excerpt from A Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Comprised Under the Following Heads: His Descent, Alliances, and First Advances to Popularity; With a View of the Motives to the Civil War, and the Sentiments of Mr. Locke and British Parliament Concerning ResistanceLineaments that contradict the general idea they, give' ofhim, and ibew him to be another fort of, a man than they are willing we fhould believe. The prefent age begins to fee through all this, and the name or Cromwell is now thought no dilhonour to the Englifh nation. At this. Favourable conjunclure, therefore, when there are not wanting thole who with our pub lick conduct, in particular with regard to a certain haughty, though contemptible people, were copied from that of this great mant, I (hall venture to draw together fuch paflages of his life, and-range them una derlproper heads, as-may'lhew what he really was, and remove, upon the principles of our heft writers on the pait of liberty, much of that load of calumny which he has hitherto borne. The talk, Iapprehend, will not be difficult.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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