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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... soon became mixed up with , the question of religion , and no state was either too great or too little to feel directly or indirectly more or less of its influence . Against the reformed doctrine and its adherents , the House of Austria ...
... soon became mixed up with , the question of religion , and no state was either too great or too little to feel directly or indirectly more or less of its influence . Against the reformed doctrine and its adherents , the House of Austria ...
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... soon be so . The whole of Lower Germany was already secularized ; and if it were otherwise in Upper Germany , it was owing to the vehement resistance of the Catholics , who had there the preponderance . Each party , where it was the ...
... soon be so . The whole of Lower Germany was already secularized ; and if it were otherwise in Upper Germany , it was owing to the vehement resistance of the Catholics , who had there the preponderance . Each party , where it was the ...
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... soon spread to Germany , and divided the Protestants among themselves , with little in unison save their common hatred to popery . The Protestants of this date bore but slight re- semblance to those who , fifty years before , drew up ...
... soon spread to Germany , and divided the Protestants among themselves , with little in unison save their common hatred to popery . The Protestants of this date bore but slight re- semblance to those who , fifty years before , drew up ...
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... soon lost itself in those astrological reveries to which timid and melancholy temperaments like his are but too disposed . This , together with a youth passed in Spain , opened his ears to the evil counsels of the Jesuits , and the ...
... soon lost itself in those astrological reveries to which timid and melancholy temperaments like his are but too disposed . This , together with a youth passed in Spain , opened his ears to the evil counsels of the Jesuits , and the ...
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... soon drove them entirely from the provincial diets . Thus the whole of the Austrian Diet had imperceptibly become Protestant , and the Reformation was making rapid strides towards its public recognition . The prince was de- pendent on ...
... soon drove them entirely from the provincial diets . Thus the whole of the Austrian Diet had imperceptibly become Protestant , and the Reformation was making rapid strides towards its public recognition . The prince was de- pendent on ...
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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...
Página 7 - The grandest and most valuable of the many scientific Works produced by Sir William Hooker. HOOKER'S EXOTIC FLORA, Containing Figures and Descriptions of Rare, or otherwise interesting Exotic Plants, especially of such as are deserving of being cultivated in our Gardens.
Página 10 - that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.