...should the Pope be any closer to God than lam? BLACKER Valentine 1728-1823 1312 'Oliver's Adi/ice' ras He'd run in debt by disputatlon, And pay with ratloci BLACKSTONE 5irWilliam 1723 1780 1313 Commentaries on the Laws of England The king never dies. 1314...

...Williamite wars and 1 798 and afterwards: He comes, the open rebel fierce he comes, the Jesuit sly; But put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. Cyril Falls wrote dispassionately as a modern critical historian in his Elizabeth's Irish Wars (1950)...

...often, but by striking true. —Honore de Balzac 1799-1850 Honore de Balzac was a famous French writer. Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry! —Valentine Blacker 1778-1823 Valentine Blacker was an English soldier. to hold that you know it;...

...regiment after regiment. To each he exhorted them to "remember our battlecry — the Lord of Hosts! Put your trust in God, my boys — and keep your powder dry!" In the early morning hours, the Parliamentarians struck the Covenanters. Though roused from their sleep,...

...In the end, they were pious pragmatists who understood Oliver Cromwell's sage advice to his troops: "Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry." In this sense, their story is probably representative of how many of the settlers viewed religion on...

...the Lord and pass the ammunition' a double trust approaching idolatry. Valentine Blacker, 1856, said 'Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry,'. Ahaz also had made a decision to put the weight of war preparedness behind weapons and treaties, and...

...Oliver Cromwell. 1834: Colonel Blacker, Oliver's Advice, in E. Hayes, Ballads of 'Ireland (1856), 1 192, Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your pow'der dry. 1856: E. Hayes, Ballads of Ire land (ed. 2), I 191, Cromwell ... when his troops were about crossing...

...over too easily. RACK The first years of man must make provision for the last. — Samuel Johnson. Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. — Colonel Blacker. DRYING AND KEEPING SEED CORN Never let it freeze before it is dry. Farmers have...

...bound to sap the physical and moral strength of every man. Clausewitz • •& & ff?o'-::t Rations Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. Oliver Cromwell CHAPTER ammunition, life's blood of the artillery. Col EE Parry, USMC The most precious...

...that Power is still the same ; He fails not — He — the loyal hearts that firm on Him rely ; So d modest grace ; For well she knew, I could not choose But Oliver's Advice. COL. BLACKER. HUMANITY'S HEROES. No common object to your sight displays, But what...