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... returned to the Escorial with an unblemished character for orthodoxy , to write the history of St. Jerome and his Order . The first volume , con- taining the life of the saint , was published in 1595 , in quarto , at Madrid ; the second ...
... returned to the Escorial with an unblemished character for orthodoxy , to write the history of St. Jerome and his Order . The first volume , con- taining the life of the saint , was published in 1595 , in quarto , at Madrid ; the second ...
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... returned to his country house at Villagarcia , six leagues to the north - west of Valladolid , whither a courier was now sent with a command for him to repair with all speed to the coast . The active chamberlain was in the saddle by two ...
... returned to his country house at Villagarcia , six leagues to the north - west of Valladolid , whither a courier was now sent with a command for him to repair with all speed to the coast . The active chamberlain was in the saddle by two ...
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... returned dismasted to port , and others had gone to the bottom . ' The Flemings were loud in their discontent , and very ill - disposed to penetrate any further into a country so hungry and inhospitable . The alcalde who was charged ...
... returned dismasted to port , and others had gone to the bottom . ' The Flemings were loud in their discontent , and very ill - disposed to penetrate any further into a country so hungry and inhospitable . The alcalde who was charged ...
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... returned to Spain , she was constantly urging him to come back and ease her of the burden of power . To her father her deference was ever most readily and affectionately paid . Devotion was the ruling passion of her widowed life ; her ...
... returned to Spain , she was constantly urging him to come back and ease her of the burden of power . To her father her deference was ever most readily and affectionately paid . Devotion was the ruling passion of her widowed life ; her ...
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... returned to their usual home , somewhere on their adjoining estates , which extended far into the Vera on one side , and across the mountain to Tornavacas on the other . During the whole month of November the weather was cold and stormy ...
... returned to their usual home , somewhere on their adjoining estates , which extended far into the Vera on one side , and across the mountain to Tornavacas on the other . During the whole month of November the weather was cold and stormy ...
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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...