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Cromwell : Oliver (1599-1658), Lord Protector of England, Scotland, & Ireland (1653-58), he led parliamentary forces in the English Civil War.

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... St. Stephen's Avenue from September 1884 to July 1887. Then, after a holiday at Hastings, Aurobindo and Benoybhushan moved, in August or September 1887, to rooms at the top of the building at 128, Cromwell Road where the office of the South Kensington Liberal Club was situated. They seem to have stayed there from September 1887 to April 1889. From there they moved to private lodgings at 28, Kempsford... 68, St. Stephen's Gardens.¹ Aurobindo left for India in January 1893. An incident reported by Sri Aurobindo gives us the reason for changing his residence from 49, St. Stephen's Avenue to 128, Cromwell Road. Mrs. Drewett was a pious Christian and every day there used to be family prayers. Passages from the Bible were read; the three brothers had to participate. Sometimes the eldest brother used... embodying the Divine Consciousness.”² ¹. See Appendix VI, Houses in England, pp. 348-49. ². Cf. Purani, Evening Talks, Second Series, pp. 141-42. Page 13 The period at 128, Cromwell Road was perhaps the most trying of Aurobindo's stay in England. They were all so hard pressed that Benoybhushan had to agree to be an assistant to James S. Cotton, who was Secretary of the Club, ...

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... would not live with an atheist, since the whole house might fall down! After she had left, Benoy Bhushan and Sri Aurobindo moved to 128, Cromwell Road. and Manomohan went into lodgings. From August or September 1887 to April 1889, Sri Aurobindo was at this Cromwell Road residence, and then went to stay at 28, Kempsford Gardens, Earl's Court, South Kensington, and remained there till almost the end... Secretary on the South Kensington Liberal Club. Manomohan went up to Christ Church, Oxford, and was thriving as a scholar and as a poet. But financial worries were not soon to leave any of them. The Cromwell Road residence had no proper bedrooms at all, nor any heating arrangements; there was a railway behind, and trains passed to and fro with some frequency. But since the rooms were in the building ...

... right road, cursed the weather and his fortunes. "It is not enough," he complained, "that I should be a proscribed fugitive hiding my head in every uncertain refuge from the pursuit of this devil's Cromwell, doomed already to the gallows, owing my life every day to the trembling compassion of my poor father's tenants; it is not enough that I should have lost Alicia and that Luke Walter should have her;... the night are his allies against me. Since God is so hard on me, I wonder why the devil does not come to my help—I would sell my soul to him this moment willingly. But perhaps he too is afraid of Cromwell." "It is hardly probable," said a voice at his side suddenly. Patrick Curran turned with a fierce start and clutched at his dagger. He was aware in the darkness of a dim form pacing beside him... asked Patrick. "How shall I say?" said the shadow, "Perhaps from my own Page 991 thoughts, perhaps from a too powerful enemy." After the discovery of the recent conspiracy to murder Cromwell and restore Charles Stuart, the country was full of Royalist fugitives, hiding by day, travelling by night, in the hope of reaching a port whence they could sail for Ostende or Calais. For the in ...

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... word "mouchoif " ("handkerchief") in the midst of his Hernani' s sentimental and sonorous alexandrines? According to Lucas, Hugo himself in his famous preface to that early play of his, Cromwell, associates Romanticism above all with "the grotesque". Christianity, with its sense of Sin, is said to have brought melancholy into the world by making man realise the paradox of his imperfect... mingling the grotesque with the tragic or sublime. Classicism is thought to forbid this kind of mixture, but actual life is said to confirm it. For instance, after signing Charles I's death-warrant, Cromwell and another of the regicides are reported to have bespattered each other's faces with the ink on their pens! Romanticism therefore is, to Hugo, really Truthfulness, "la verite". And yet ...

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... effect from 1.1.1938. The four areas you mention were extensively developed in the latter half of Queen Victoria's reign. It appears from maps and Post Office Directories that the house in Cromwell Road was built in 1877. Much of Kempsford Gardens was built during the 1860's although No. 28 appears to have been built between 1875 and 1880. Burlington Road appears for the first time in... W. Wilson, Librarian. 4. The Royal Borough of  Kensington, Public Libraries and Leighton House, Chief Librarian H. G. Massey, A.L.A,, A.M.A., 17th January, 1956. Cromwell Road was constructed after the International Exhibition of 1862. Prior to this date, it was nothing more than a muddy lane. Hogarth Road was named in 1873, and Kempsford Gardens about the same ...

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... father's failure to support them. Manmohan could not endure for long the strain of living at Cromwell Road and left when he found lodgings on convenient terms. His position also improved when he won a scholarship to go up to Christ Church College, Oxford in 1887. Sri Aurobindo seems to have lived at Cromwell Road from September 1887 to April 1889. Then he had the good fortune to find a landlady who... brother of Sir Henry Cotton, who was a well-known figure in India and a friend of Dr. K.D. Ghose. James Cotton was then Secretary of the South Kensington Liberal Club which had its office at 128, Cromwell Road. The boys went and saw him and, realising their predicament, he engaged Benoybhusan on a small allowance. He also arranged for the brothers to stay in a room on top of the office. The room was ...

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... Waller had written a lengthy "Panegyrick" to Oliver Cromwell the Protector. When the Restoration came about after Cromwell's death, the same Waller was not long in singing the "Happy Return" of Charles. When King Charles read this second poem, addressed to himself, he told the poet that it was reported that he had written better verse to Oliver Cromwell. Unperturbed and undaunted, the ready-witted ...

... he started writing a series of pamphlets on various public themes. Some of them made him unpopular, but he held on to his course. With the end of the Civil War he was appointed Latin Secretary to Cromwell. Time and again Page 54 he defended the policy of the Commonwealth. The most famous occasion was when an attack on it was launched by the greatest scholar in Europe, Salmasius, for ...

... quite capable of shouldering it if only the sadhaka resolutely surrenders himself to the Divine. Of course, the sadhaka' s attitude should not be like that of Page 169 Cromwell who gave this diplomatic advice to his fighting soldiers: "Have faith in God but keep the gun-powder dry." This is not faith at all. For a genuine God-loving sadhaka the Divine should not be the ...

... St. Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush, London. 1886 August Vacation in Keswick. 1887 August Vacation in Hastings. After returning from Hastings takes lodgings at 128, Cromwell Road, London. 1889 December Passes Matriculation from St. Paul's. 1890 July Admitted as a probationer to the Indian Civil Service. October 11 Admitted on a scholarship ...

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... at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush, London. 1886 — August Vacation in Keswick. 1887 — August Vacation in Hastings. After returning from Hastings takes lodgings at 128, Cromwell Road, London. 1889 — December Passes matriculation from St. Paul's. 1890—July Admitted as a probationer to the Indian Civil Service. October 11 Admitted on a scholarship ...

... with corresponding European immortals. In what Page 250 is Shivaji with his vivid and interesting life and character, who not only founded a kingdom but organised a nation, inferior to Cromwell, or Shankara whose great spirit in the few years of its mortal life swept triumphant through India and reconstituted the whole religious life of her peoples, inferior as a personality to Luther? Why ...

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... hands. 29 September 1938 Should I ever run into a malaria case, I will give you a loud shout and rest assured that I will come out scot free. I intend to scrap all malaria medicines. Mm! Cromwell said "Trust in God and keep your powder dry!" 10 November 1938 Therapeutic Force and Homeopathy I felt some improvement in the leg but the pain has not gone completely. Generally the medicines ...

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... long reign of force failed in Ireland, partly because even a Russian or a German autocracy cannot apply perfectly and simply the large, thoroughgoing and utterly brutal and predatory methods of a Cromwell or Elizabeth, 3 partly because the resisting psychological factor of nationalism had become too self-conscious and capable of an organised passive resistance or at least a passive force of survival ...

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... in the queer conjunction that the greatest artist in English poetry is also the greatest Puritan in England's literature. We have already said that he was Cromwell's Foreign Secretary; like Cromwell, he belonged to the sect of those who wanted to make religion "pure" and called themselves Puritans. They held that God should be worshipped in barest simplicity, with no elaboration of ritual and ...

... picture of young Macaulay, threatened with shipwreck, reciting the Miltonic pentameters, is rather apposite: the ship of state, whose course Milton had helped to steer, the Commonwealth established by Cromwell, was sinking when he commenced Paradise Lost and the poet's own life was soon threatened. But the dictating voice never faltered. Poetically no less than morally it kept fluent and steady. And ...

... Her the flowers that best expressed their aspiration and She would give them Her answer through appropriate flowers. [ ↩ ] The flower ‘Divinité’ (in English, ‘Godhead’) Hibiscus ‘Hawaiian’ — ‘Cromwell’ [ ↩ ] ‘Attachment for the Divine’ – Belamcanda Chinensis , Orchid. [ ↩ ] ‘Unselfishness’ – Beaumontia Grandiflora , Herald’s Trumpet, Easter Lily Vine. It is a bowl-shaped flower into ...

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... always the case with those who suppress their vital being. It allows the pressure on itself, gets strong and then finds vent in some other direction. The same thing happened to the Puritans in England. Cromwell and his men came to power and became the worst oppressors. In Christianity the principle of non violence is there but it is meant to be practised for religious and spiritual development. It may be ...

... students. He was the Secretary to the South Kensington Liberal Club, and offered Benoybhusan the post of assistant, with a salary of five shillings a week and lodgings in the Club's office at 128, Cromwell Road. They lived there from September 1887 to December 1889. 1 In an undated letter about that time Manmohan describes the office of this Club. "I write to tell you my new address to which we ...

... rebel against Charles I, the vehement defender of regicide who remained the unrepentant Republican even when the Stuart Monarchy was restored and who might have been the first to get hanged as Cromwell's bellicose foreign secretary and all-Europe champion. There is also the blending of himself with some of the attitudes and ideas in the great speeches made by Satan's followers: especially when ...

... is it the antidote or cow dung given by some villagers that did the miracle? Sri Aurobindo: Perhaps it was Force + the cow dung that Page 133 did it. You know the proverbial Cromwellism "Trust in God and keep your powder dry" - so "Open to the Force and keep your cow dung handy" would be the recipe for castor-oil-seed-eaters.' 1 X. On Sri Aurobindo's own prescriptions! ...

... science mistaken or has your Force worked or is it the antidote of cow dung given by some villagers that did the miracle? Perhaps it was Force + the cow dung that did it. You know the proverbial Cromwellism "Trust in God and keep your powder dry"—so "Open to the Force and keep your cow dung handy" would be the recipe for castor-oil-seed-eaters. By the way, we are told V advised D.R.R. to take the poison ...