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... carried on between the courts at Valladolid and Bruxelles , and the retired emperor and his household , in the years 1556 , 1557 , and 1558. The principal writers are Philip the Second , the infanta Juana , princess of Brazil and regent ...
... carried on between the courts at Valladolid and Bruxelles , and the retired emperor and his household , in the years 1556 , 1557 , and 1558. The principal writers are Philip the Second , the infanta Juana , princess of Brazil and regent ...
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... carried into effect . Meanwhile , I believe that neither the memoir nor the letters contain any interest- ing fact , or trait of character , which will not be found in the following pages , with some illustrations of the emperor and his ...
... carried into effect . Meanwhile , I believe that neither the memoir nor the letters contain any interest- ing fact , or trait of character , which will not be found in the following pages , with some illustrations of the emperor and his ...
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... carried into effect . With his empress , Isabella of Portugal , who died in 1538 , Charles had agreed that so soon as state affairs and the ages of their children should permit , they were to retire for the remainder of their days - he ...
... carried into effect . With his empress , Isabella of Portugal , who died in 1538 , Charles had agreed that so soon as state affairs and the ages of their children should permit , they were to retire for the remainder of their days - he ...
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... carry with her the goodwill of the Belgian people , and to assure them of her affection , and of her earnest desire for their welfare , to which any power she might possess would ever be directed.1 The eloquence and flattery of Jacques ...
... carry with her the goodwill of the Belgian people , and to assure them of her affection , and of her earnest desire for their welfare , to which any power she might possess would ever be directed.1 The eloquence and flattery of Jacques ...
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... carried fire and sword into her favourite bowers , but assailed her reputation with the poisoned arrows of their satire . The epigrammatists of Paris loved to rhyme of her as the huntress Dian , and to insinuate that in spite of her ...
... carried fire and sword into her favourite bowers , but assailed her reputation with the poisoned arrows of their satire . The epigrammatists of Paris loved to rhyme of her as the huntress Dian , and to insinuate that in spite of her ...
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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...