History of the Thirty Years' War, Complete: History of the Revolt of the Netherlands to the Confederacy of the GueuxG. Woodfall & Son Printers, 1846 - 519 páginas |
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... person was denied , the most urgent matters were neglected . The prospect of the rich inheritance of Spain was closed against him , while he was trying to make up his mind to offer his hand to the Infanta Isabella . A fearful anarchy ...
... person was denied , the most urgent matters were neglected . The prospect of the rich inheritance of Spain was closed against him , while he was trying to make up his mind to offer his hand to the Infanta Isabella . A fearful anarchy ...
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... person , seemed to favour this scheme , in which Rodolph consulted rather his own partiality and vindictiveness than the good of his house . But to carry out this project , a military force was requisite , and Rodolph actually assembled ...
... person , seemed to favour this scheme , in which Rodolph consulted rather his own partiality and vindictiveness than the good of his house . But to carry out this project , a military force was requisite , and Rodolph actually assembled ...
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... person , had abandoned him . When he had signed the instrument , he threw his hat upon the ground , and gnawed the pen which had rendered so shameful a service . So While Rodolph thus lost one hereditary dominion after another , the ...
... person , had abandoned him . When he had signed the instrument , he threw his hat upon the ground , and gnawed the pen which had rendered so shameful a service . So While Rodolph thus lost one hereditary dominion after another , the ...
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... person of John George of Brandenburg . The Roman Catholic canons , far from allowing this election , nominated the Bishop of Metz , a prince of Lorraine , to that dignity , who announced his promotion by immediately com- mencing ...
... person of John George of Brandenburg . The Roman Catholic canons , far from allowing this election , nominated the Bishop of Metz , a prince of Lorraine , to that dignity , who announced his promotion by immediately com- mencing ...
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... person of Ferdinand of Gratz . This prince , whom we shall afterwards become better ac- quainted with under the title of Ferdinand II . , Emperor of Germany , had , by the violent extirpation of the Protestant religion within his ...
... person of Ferdinand of Gratz . This prince , whom we shall afterwards become better ac- quainted with under the title of Ferdinand II . , Emperor of Germany , had , by the violent extirpation of the Protestant religion within his ...
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History of the Thirty Years' War, Complete: History of the Revolt ..., Volume 1 Friedrich Schiller Visualização integral - 1883 |
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abandoned alliance allies already appeared arms army attack Austria battle Bavaria bishops Bohemia Brandenburg camp cause church coloured command confederates conquest Council Count Egmont Count Mansfeld courage court crown danger defend dominions Duke of Bavaria edicts Edition Elector of Bavaria Elector of Saxony Emperor empire enemy Engravings Estates Europe fate favour fear Ferdinand force formidable fortune France French garrison Germany gilt cloth Granvella Gustavus Adolphus hands HISTORY hitherto honour hope imperial Imperialists Inquisition King of Sweden king's kingdom latter League liberty Lower Saxony Magdeburg Mansfeld Maximilian monarch morocco nation negociations Netherlands nobles oppression Palatinate party peace Philip Plates Pomerania Portrait possession Prague Prince of Orange Protestants provinces quarter regent religion religious Rhine Roman Catholic royal soldiers soon sovereign Spain Spaniards Spanish Swedes Swedish territories threatened throne Tilly tion town treaty troops Union victory Viglius vols Wallenstein whole zeal
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Página 3 - The author appears to us to have neglected no sources of information, and to have exhausted them, as far as regards the general scope and purpose of the inquiry. The graphical illustrations are such as become a work of this character upon such a subject ; at, of course, a lavish cost.
Página 5 - STRUTT'S DRESSES AND HABITS OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time ; with an Historical and Critical Inquiry into every branch of Costume.
Página 11 - Bearings, Crests, and Mottoes, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, including the late Grants by the College of Arms. With an Introduction to Heraldry, and a Dictionary of Terms.
Página 13 - Essays : On Decision of Character ; on a Man's writing Memoirs of Himself; on the epithet Romantic; on the aversion of Men of Taste to Evangelical Religion.
Página 18 - Opera), the best farce (the Critic — it is only too good for a farce), and the best Address (Monologue on Garrick), and, to crown all, delivered the very best Oration (the famous Begum Speech) ever conceived or heard in this country.
Página 15 - In respect to this new and improved edition, one of the most Eminent scholars of the present day has expressed his opinion that "the increased advantages given to it have doubled the original value of the work.
Página 25 - Literary Gazette. OXFORD CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY, From the earliest Period to the present Time ; in which all the great Events, Civil, Religious, Seientific, and Literary, of the various Nations of the World are placed, at one view, under the eye of the Reader, in a Series of parallel columns, so as to exhibit the state of the whole Civilized World at any epoch, and at the same time form a continuous chain of History, with Genealogical Tables of all the principal Dynasties. Complete...
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Página 10 - that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.