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“Furthermore, reformed religious thinking made it possible for women, who were treated as inferior and subservient in almost all spheres of seventeenth-century life, to be taken seriously.”

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“... she had foreseen the New Model Army's occupation of London in the tense weeks before Charles I was tried. Two years after that she had experienced a further trance and this time saw an army on the battlefield, led by a figure of valour and courage, God indicating that 'Oliver Cromwell, then Lord General, was that Gideon'. Cromwell's defeat of the Scots at the battle of Dunbar soon afterwards offered Anna confirmation of the truth of her visions.”

Visions History Of England Oliver Cromwell Anna Trapnel

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“... it was easy to dismiss her as a fraud until you actually met her -- when the possibility became much more real that she might indeed by God's handmaiden.”

Visions History Of England Anna Trapnel

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“... he relived the day he had been ushered into a London house to see an exotic 'great fowle' -- nothing less than a live dodo, one of the very last to be seen in Europe.”

History Of England Dodo Sir Hamon L Estrange

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“She had a wicked and downright dirty sense of humour, and enjoyed nothing more than sharing funny stories and bawdy jokes. She was practical and unpretentious...”

History Of England Lady Alice L Estrange

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“In his will he said nothing of war or injustice or personal achievements, but spoke of gratitude, peace and acceptance. He gave thanks for his long life -- the 'great measure of daies' with which God 'had filled my glass of time' -- and for the love and companionship of 'that life of my life my dearest wife'.”

History Of England Sir Hamon L Estrange

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“As soon as the edifice of the knowledge of the ancients had been shaken in the minds of the most inquisitive, questions upon questions arose which now demanded technology, including -- crucially -- the invention of the telescope and the microscope, enabling a generation of scholars to see clearly things which had been absolutely invisible to their forefathers. It was a thrilling, and dangerous, time to be alive.”

History Of Science History Of England History Of Technology

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“What a leap of faith. To love in spite of loss, to begin again when you’ve already failed, to reach for joy knowing that it brings pain, too, that life is inseparable from damage. - 99%”

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“He mocked those who still spent their time bent over books, for 'discoveries and improvements' would not be found in trawling the work of others. He had decided the previous year to stop reading altogether and instead to focus entirely on active experimentation...”

History Of Science History Of England William Petty

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“... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right.”

History Of England William Petty

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