The History of France, from the Accession of Henry the Third, in 1574, to the Death of Henry the Fourth, in 1610: Preceded by a View of the Civil, Military and Political State of Europe, Between the Middle, and the Close of the Sixteenth Century; and Followed by a View of the State of Europe at the Accession of Louis the Thirteenth, Volume 4T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814 |
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... Guise . That enterpriz- ing chief , far from desiring to emancipate the people , or to diminish the royal authority ; only aspired to become himself the depository of it , and to reduce the King to the shadow of a sovereign . The ...
... Guise . That enterpriz- ing chief , far from desiring to emancipate the people , or to diminish the royal authority ; only aspired to become himself the depository of it , and to reduce the King to the shadow of a sovereign . The ...
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... Guise , during the course of the short negotiation which took place between him and the King , before the flight of the latter from Suspension the Louvre , in May , 1588 ; expressly proposed , as one of the articles of accommodation ...
... Guise , during the course of the short negotiation which took place between him and the King , before the flight of the latter from Suspension the Louvre , in May , 1588 ; expressly proposed , as one of the articles of accommodation ...
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... Guise , father to Francis , Duke of Guise , so famous in the history of France , is said to have commanded six thousand German auxiliaries , as colonel " . It was not however before the year 1542 , at the siege of Perpignan , that the ...
... Guise , father to Francis , Duke of Guise , so famous in the history of France , is said to have commanded six thousand German auxiliaries , as colonel " . It was not however before the year 1542 , at the siege of Perpignan , that the ...
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... Guise , likewise , by constantly using the same weapon , facilitated its progress among the troops . The principal objection to them consisted in their weight , which so fatigued the soldier , that among the Spaniards , every musqueteer ...
... Guise , likewise , by constantly using the same weapon , facilitated its progress among the troops . The principal objection to them consisted in their weight , which so fatigued the soldier , that among the Spaniards , every musqueteer ...
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... Guise was finally sacrificed to the resentment of their master . * k During the course of the civil wars which desolated France under the two last kings of the family of Valois , the nobility served in a great measure , on both sides ...
... Guise was finally sacrificed to the resentment of their master . * k During the course of the civil wars which desolated France under the two last kings of the family of Valois , the nobility served in a great measure , on both sides ...
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The History of France, from the Accession of Henry the Third, in ..., Volume 4 Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall Visualização integral - 1814 |
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Página 399 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 266 - I was sent with my brother to study the laws under the superintendence of an ancient gentleman. "We were auditors during three years, leading a much stricter life, and studying more severely, than persons of the present time would suppose. We rose at four in the morning, and having said our prayers, began our studies at five, our great books under our arms, and our inkstands and candlesticks in our hands. We listened to all the lectures till ten without intermission, and then dined, after having...
Página 267 - ... inkstands and candlesticks in our hands. We listened to all the lectures till ten without intermission, and then dined, after having in haste run over the substance of the lectures, which we had taken down in writing. After dinner, as a matter of amusement, we read Greek plays, or Demosthenes, &c. At one o'clock to our studies again. At five, home, to repeat and look out in our books for the passages cited. Then we supped, and read in Greek and Latin. On holidays we went to mass and vespers,...
Página 297 - any little coquette in Paris who does not expose her bosom in the fashion of Queen Marguerite." It is amusing to learn that inventions for increasing the size of the female figure behind, as well as for augmenting it before, and both of which have been renewed in the present age, were common under the last princes of Valois. As early as 1563, treatises were written and satires composed on " basquines " and
Página 171 - ... inflamed their enthusiasm. They still continued to be formidable under Henry III., though their numbers were lessened. But, after the accession of the King of Navarre to the throne of France, they began rapidly to diminish. The desertion of that monarch, and his reconciliation to the Church of Rome, together with the toleration granted them by him, tended insensibly to draw off all those who were not animated with fervent zeal for the maintenance of the reformed religion.
Página 36 - ... they were liable. So they went home, as little edified with their new bishop, as he was with them." We suppose, that no people, however subject to arbitrary laws and despotic princes, ever experienced such a continued series of violence and oppression as was maintained by the government of Scotland, during the reign of the two last princes of the house of Stuart. Every administration, by turn, seemed to go a step farther than the one which had preceded it ; and the fury of Lauderdale did not...
Página 190 - CHAP." by what is here related, that the spiritual •* sword, which is the good example of the clergy, charity, exhortation, and other good « works, are more necessary to extinguish he...
Página 39 - ... their stockings at the knee, when going to the assault of a town. As their dress from the waist to the ankle, consisted only of one piece, it facilitated their scaling a wall, or mounting a breach.
Página 44 - First, in 1515, that any considerable change was effected, Between that time and the death of Henry the Third, in 1589, pikes, the ancient weapon of the French infantry, gave place to the arquebuss ; while in the cavalry, lances were gradually and reluctantly exchanged for the pistol. At that period, the Spaniards were...