But all military government is precarious; much more where it stands in opposition to civil establishments; and still more where it encounters religious prejudices.

By the wild fanaticism which he had nourished in the soldiers, he had seduced them into measures, for which, if openly proposed to them, they would have entertained the utmost aversion.

But this same spirit rendered them more difficult to be governed, and made their caprices terrible even to that hand which directed their movements.

So often taught, that the office of king was a usurpation upon Christ, they were apt to suspect a protector not to be altogether compatible with that divine authority.

Harrison, though raised to the highest dignity, and possessed of Cromwell's confidence, became his most inveterate enemy as soon as the authority of a single person was established, against which that usurper had always made such violent protestations.