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... crowns.1 The drawing was probably made several years before the plate was engraved , but I have been unable to find any satisfactory contemporary portrait of the emperor in his latter days . Perhaps none exists , as Charles , at the age ...
... crowns.1 The drawing was probably made several years before the plate was engraved , but I have been unable to find any satisfactory contemporary portrait of the emperor in his latter days . Perhaps none exists , as Charles , at the age ...
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... crowns on the 16th January , 1556 Executes a deed of renunciation of the imperial crown on the 16th August • · His wish to make Philip em- peror • Opposed by his brother , Ferdi- nand , king of Romans Emperor's anxiety to lay aside the ...
... crowns on the 16th January , 1556 Executes a deed of renunciation of the imperial crown on the 16th August • · His wish to make Philip em- peror • Opposed by his brother , Ferdi- nand , king of Romans Emperor's anxiety to lay aside the ...
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... crown completed 3rd May , 1558 The emperor's joy at the intelli- • 189 189 190 gence , and consequent orders 190 His dislike to royal insignia . 191 Church abuses and reform move- ment Heretical books 192 192 , 193 194 , 195 Spanish ...
... crown completed 3rd May , 1558 The emperor's joy at the intelli- • 189 189 190 gence , and consequent orders 190 His dislike to royal insignia . 191 Church abuses and reform move- ment Heretical books 192 192 , 193 194 , 195 Spanish ...
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... crown of England , and had given him an early hint of her gracious willingness to become his second empress . For himself , this tempting opportunity must be fore- gone . " Were the dominions of that kingdom greater even than they are ...
... crown of England , and had given him an early hint of her gracious willingness to become his second empress . For himself , this tempting opportunity must be fore- gone . " Were the dominions of that kingdom greater even than they are ...
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... crown matrimonial of England to the many diadems which were to be worn by his son Philip . But had he much longer continued to bear the burden of supreme power , there is little doubt that the hand of death would soon have made Mary ...
... crown matrimonial of England to the many diadems which were to be worn by his son Philip . But had he much longer continued to bear the burden of supreme power , there is little doubt that the hand of death would soon have made Mary ...
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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...