With the collapse of the Royalist cause came a confused period of negotiations between the parliament and the king, between the king and the Scots, and between the Presbyterians and the Independents in and out of parliament.
At the same time Cromwell's great victory of Preston crushed the Scots, and the Independents became practically all-powerful.
No one in the Convention Parliament had had any sympathy with the Independents, and still less with the more fanatical sects which had received toleration when the Independents were in power.
Parliament, dissatisfied with this daring act, began to levy troops in London, and reorganised the London trained bands, excluding all Independentsfrom their ranks.
The one thing which the people of England as a body specially detested was the rule of the Cromwellian army, and the two parties therefore combined to persecute the Independents by whom that army had been supported.
The Independents set the example of separating from the national Church, in order to form communities outside it.
And meanwhile other independents sprang up with the discovery of oil in other parts of the country.
Although due acknowledgment must be made of the honesty and enterprise with which hundreds of the independents are managed, the fact remains that they are a great economic waste.
It is the imperative duty of the Independents to prove that this besotted brute was not Mark Twain himself.
Mr. Mark Twain, who was to make such a blighting speech at the mass-meeting of the Independents last night, didn't come to time!
And the Independents tried hard to swallow the wretched subterfuge, and pretend that they did not know what was the real reason of the absence of the abandoned creature whom they denominate their standard-bearer.
Without this, Whitefield could not have had the sympathy and co-operation of the Presbyterians and Independents of America.
He found them not in the school of the Oxford Methodists, but among the Presbyterians and Independents of America.
It was a community of Independents acting without a charter, working out their own career practically free from royal supervision or veto, and with an elective governor and council.
The Presbyterians and Independents were alike few in number in Elizabeth's time; but as the result of persecution under James I.
The Independents in particular were harshly treated, so that many fled to Holland, where there was religious toleration for all; and from this branch of the Separatists came the Pilgrims, who first colonized New England.
Independents were in frequent conflict with the Presbyterians; nor was there only sectarian strife, for both parties had numerous supporters in Parliament, as well as partizans in the army.
We then crossed the River, and learned at the Ferry on Maryland side that a Company of Independents in Charles County had attended the Virginia Delegates from thence under Arms.
We proceeded and overtook them at Port Tobacco, where, indeed, the Independents made a Most Glorious Appearance.
When the Independents succeeded to the exercise of the supreme power, both the persecuted parties indulged a hope of more lenient treatment, and both were disappointed.
But if the zeal of the Independents was more sparing of blood than that of the Presbyterians, it was not inferior in point of rapacity.
The motion was seconded and opposed; but the Independents had come to act, not to debate.
Occasionally independents are shrewd enough to take advantage of this; and so to distribute their business that they shall in no single place menace a powerful rival, and yet comfortably subsist on the gleanings over a wide area.
The Independents had the powerful backing of Cromwell and the "New Model," so that the stage was set for a quarrel between Parliament and the army.
The Anglicans, the Presbyterians, and the Roman Catholics were willing to restore the monarchy, but as long as the power lay with the army, the small sect of Independents could impose its will on the great majority of the English people.
Among them were found Presbyterians, Independents (or Congregationalists), Baptists, and Quakers.
A party of soldiers, under the command of a Colonel Pride, excluded the Presbyterian members from the floor of the House, leaving the Independents alone to conduct the government.
But even in regard to this, some of the earlier Independents were far from differing widely from their presbyterian brethren.
Like his friend Principal Gillespie, however, Binning appears to have kept up an amicable intercourse with some of theIndependents in the army of the Commonwealth.
The only part of the country in which any ministers connected with the Church of Scotland appear to have separated from it, and joined themselves to the Independents was the town or county of Aberdeen.
The charge of the independents upon Blaine's personal honor caused the Republican schism and drove the party regulars into a retort in kind.
Cleveland possessed qualities that made his appeal to independents quite as strong as it was to Democrats.
The demand, however, increased, receiving the support of the independentswho were Liberal Republicans in 1872, and who thereafter constituted a menace to party regularity.
The use of public offices for party purposes had been regarded as a scandal byindependents of both parties for four administrations.
Have you any Methodists, Seceders, orIndependents there?
Here houses for Wesleyan Methodists and Independents were soon erected, and in them thousands have been converted to God.
Rees, the author of the celebrated Cyclopedia which bears his name, visited Pwllheli, a town on the promontory of Sleyn, in Caernarvonshire, and one of the few places in which the Independents still had a chapel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "independents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
