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... Postscript for a third edition . • · xviii xix M. Bakhuizen van den Brink's analysis of a MS . by a monk of Yuste .. M. Th . Juste · · M. Mignet • • xix • xix - xxi xxii xxii • PREFACE . THE HE first , and perhaps the best.
... Postscript for a third edition . • · xviii xix M. Bakhuizen van den Brink's analysis of a MS . by a monk of Yuste .. M. Th . Juste · · M. Mignet • • xix • xix - xxi xxii xxii • PREFACE . THE HE first , and perhaps the best.
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... Yuste , he had the advantage of conversing with many eye - witnesses of the facts ; Fray Antonio de Villacastin , and several other monks of Yuste were his brethren at the Escorial ; the emperor's confessor , Regla , and his favourite ...
... Yuste , he had the advantage of conversing with many eye - witnesses of the facts ; Fray Antonio de Villacastin , and several other monks of Yuste were his brethren at the Escorial ; the emperor's confessor , Regla , and his favourite ...
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... Yuste with much dignity and grace , and still more in- accuracy . Citing the respectable names of Sandoval , Vera , and De Thou , he seems to have chiefly relied upon Leti , one of the most lively and least trustworthy of the historians ...
... Yuste with much dignity and grace , and still more in- accuracy . Citing the respectable names of Sandoval , Vera , and De Thou , he seems to have chiefly relied upon Leti , one of the most lively and least trustworthy of the historians ...
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... Yuste . The memoir is entitled The retirement , residence , and death of the emperor Charles the Fifth in the monastery of Yuste ; a historical narrative founded on documents.1 It commences with an account of many political events ...
... Yuste . The memoir is entitled The retirement , residence , and death of the emperor Charles the Fifth in the monastery of Yuste ; a historical narrative founded on documents.1 It commences with an account of many political events ...
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... Yuste , were his evidence not confirmed by the letters of the friar - hating household . But I see no reason for questioning the accuracy of his account of the imperial obsequies . That account was written while he was prior of the ...
... Yuste , were his evidence not confirmed by the letters of the friar - hating household . But I see no reason for questioning the accuracy of his account of the imperial obsequies . That account was written while he was prior of the ...
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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...