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... persons who had known his hero . He also may have seen the narrative of the prior Angulo . Of that narrative a copy exists , or did lately exist , in the National Library at Madrid . It was seen there some vili PREFACE .
... persons who had known his hero . He also may have seen the narrative of the prior Angulo . Of that narrative a copy exists , or did lately exist , in the National Library at Madrid . It was seen there some vili PREFACE .
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... persons who had been buried many years before . Super- stition and dyspepsia have driven men into far greater extravagances . Nor is there any reason to doubt Siguença's veracity in a matter in which the credit of his order , or the ...
... persons who had been buried many years before . Super- stition and dyspepsia have driven men into far greater extravagances . Nor is there any reason to doubt Siguença's veracity in a matter in which the credit of his order , or the ...
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... persons - the prior Angulo , the confessor Regla , Fray Lorenzo de Losar , employed as purveyor of the imperial household , and Fray Miguel de Torralva , who held the post of obrero or master of works . The prior and the confessor , he ...
... persons - the prior Angulo , the confessor Regla , Fray Lorenzo de Losar , employed as purveyor of the imperial household , and Fray Miguel de Torralva , who held the post of obrero or master of works . The prior and the confessor , he ...
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... persons . The queens were accom- modated on board a Flemish vessel . Although the royal party embarked at Zuitburg on the thirteenth of Sep- tember , the state of the weather did not allow them to put to sea until the seventeenth . The ...
... persons . The queens were accom- modated on board a Flemish vessel . Although the royal party embarked at Zuitburg on the thirteenth of Sep- tember , the state of the weather did not allow them to put to sea until the seventeenth . The ...
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... persons of Don Luis and the infanta , were still too recent to be forgotten , and may have been partly the cause why the princess Juana so soon forsook her baby - son , and the kingdom which was his heritage . The national enmities ...
... persons of Don Luis and the infanta , were still too recent to be forgotten , and may have been partly the cause why the princess Juana so soon forsook her baby - son , and the kingdom which was his heritage . The national enmities ...
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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...