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... amongst the royal corpses brought in 1574 to the Escorial ; 4 Siguença , although prior of the Escorial , has fallen into the same error ; 5 the stories of the hyssop and pyx , which I have related on the authority of Siguença , 7 are ...
... amongst the royal corpses brought in 1574 to the Escorial ; 4 Siguença , although prior of the Escorial , has fallen into the same error ; 5 the stories of the hyssop and pyx , which I have related on the authority of Siguença , 7 are ...
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... amongst christian nations , and of uniting their forces in defending the catholic faith against the Turk . These designs I have not been able completely to execute , owing , in part , to the outbreak of the German heresy , and in part ...
... amongst christian nations , and of uniting their forces in defending the catholic faith against the Turk . These designs I have not been able completely to execute , owing , in part , to the outbreak of the German heresy , and in part ...
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... amongst yourselves . Above all , resist those new sects which infest the adjoining countries ; and if heresy should penetrate within your frontier , hasten to extirpate it , or evil will overtake you . For myself , I must confess that I ...
... amongst yourselves . Above all , resist those new sects which infest the adjoining countries ; and if heresy should penetrate within your frontier , hasten to extirpate it , or evil will overtake you . For myself , I must confess that I ...
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... amongst the populace in the centre of the hall . The emperor and his son having resumed their seats , Jacques Maes , an eminent lawyer and syndic of Antwerp , stood up to answer the abdicating monarch in the name of the states - general ...
... amongst the populace in the centre of the hall . The emperor and his son having resumed their seats , Jacques Maes , an eminent lawyer and syndic of Antwerp , stood up to answer the abdicating monarch in the name of the states - general ...
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... Amongst the last things done on shore by the emperor was to write to his brother Ferdinand a long letter of advice as to the manner of dealing with the electoral diet in order to procure its unconditional acceptance of the act of ab ...
... Amongst the last things done on shore by the emperor was to write to his brother Ferdinand a long letter of advice as to the manner of dealing with the electoral diet in order to procure its unconditional acceptance of the act of ab ...
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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 - ... 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...