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Page xi
... hands of his brother Manuel , for whom he had obtained the reversion of his post at Simancas . At the revolution of La Granja , in 1836 , Manuel being displaced and beggared , offered the memoir of Charles the Fifth to the governments ...
... hands of his brother Manuel , for whom he had obtained the reversion of his post at Simancas . At the revolution of La Granja , in 1836 , Manuel being displaced and beggared , offered the memoir of Charles the Fifth to the governments ...
Page xii
... hand . The copy contains 387 folio leaves , written on both sides , the memoir filling 266 leaves , and the appendix 121. There is also a plan of the palace , and part of the monastery of Yuste . The memoir is entitled The retirement ...
... hand . The copy contains 387 folio leaves , written on both sides , the memoir filling 266 leaves , and the appendix 121. There is also a plan of the palace , and part of the monastery of Yuste . The memoir is entitled The retirement ...
Page xiv
... hands . He himself followed in his shroud . He was ' laid in his coffin , with much solemnity . The service for the ' dead ... hand , like the others , a waxen taper , which , at a certain point of the ceremonial , he delivered to the ...
... hands . He himself followed in his shroud . He was ' laid in his coffin , with much solemnity . The service for the ' dead ... hand , like the others , a waxen taper , which , at a certain point of the ceremonial , he delivered to the ...
Page xvi
... hands of Gonzalez . The emperor's attack of illness , on the 30th , was ascribed by the physician to his having sat too long in the sun in his western alcove ; and his being able to sit there tallies with Siguença's statement , that he ...
... hands of Gonzalez . The emperor's attack of illness , on the 30th , was ascribed by the physician to his having sat too long in the sun in his western alcove ; and his being able to sit there tallies with Siguença's statement , that he ...
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... hand , a piece of evidence of some weight in its favour . In an inventory of state - papers of Castille , drawn up by him in 1818 , and existing at Simancas , and in duplicate in the Foreign Office at Madrid , M. Gachard found the ...
... hand , a piece of evidence of some weight in its favour . In an inventory of state - papers of Castille , drawn up by him in 1818 , and existing at Simancas , and in duplicate in the Foreign Office at Madrid , M. Gachard found 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 - ... 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...