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... France contained a MS . account of the retirement of Charles the Fifth , illustrated with original letters , and compiled by Don Tomas Gonzalez . Of the existence of this precious document I had already been made aware by Mr. Ford's ...
... France contained a MS . account of the retirement of Charles the Fifth , illustrated with original letters , and compiled by Don Tomas Gonzalez . Of the existence of this precious document I had already been made aware by Mr. Ford's ...
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... France , Russia , Belgium , and England , at the price of 10,000 francs , or about 400 % . , re- serving the right of publishing it for his own behoof , or of 15,000 francs without such reservation . No purchaser at that price appearing ...
... France , Russia , Belgium , and England , at the price of 10,000 francs , or about 400 % . , re- serving the right of publishing it for his own behoof , or of 15,000 francs without such reservation . No purchaser at that price appearing ...
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... France and Spain . But the bulk of the memoir consists almost wholly of original letters , selected from the correspondence carried on between the courts at Valladolid and Bruxelles , and the retired emperor and his household , in the ...
... France and Spain . But the bulk of the memoir consists almost wholly of original letters , selected from the correspondence carried on between the courts at Valladolid and Bruxelles , and the retired emperor and his household , in the ...
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... France , and the duke of Ferrara . 10 Will of the emperor , with its codicil . Of these papers , Nos . 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 10 , and perhaps some of the others , have already been printed : of No. 7 I have given an abstract in my appendix ...
... France , and the duke of Ferrara . 10 Will of the emperor , with its codicil . Of these papers , Nos . 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 10 , and perhaps some of the others , have already been printed : of No. 7 I have given an abstract in my appendix ...
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... France , and why it has been so zealously guarded by M. Mignet . They are written in the able style with which M. Mignet's other works have made the world familiar . The paucity of extracts from the original documents is a matter of ...
... France , and why it has been so zealously guarded by M. Mignet . They are written in the able style with which M. Mignet's other works have made the world familiar . The paucity of extracts from the original documents is a matter of ...
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Page xiv - ... laid in his coffin, with much solemnity. The service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which were offered up for the rest of his soul, mingling his tears with those which his attendants shed, as if they had been celebrating a real funeral. The ceremony closed with sprinkling holy water on the coffin in the usual form, and, all the assistants retiring, the doors of the chapel were shut. Then Charles rose out of the coffin, and withdrew to his apartment, full of those...
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Page xiv - He himself followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin, with much solemnity. The service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which were offered up for the...
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Page xiv - ... all the assistants retiring, the doors of the chapel were shut. Then Charles rose out of the coffin, and withdrew to his apartment, full of those awful sentiments which such a singular solemnity was calculated to inspire. But either the fatiguing length of the ceremony, or the impression which...
Page 48 - ... retreat. It was seated in a vale of no great extent, watered by a small brook, and surrounded by rising grounds, covered with lofty trees ; from the nature of...