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... thousand men lay before Metz , and all his thoughts were bent on that celebrated siege , it was with difficulty , when he visited the lines , that he could sit his Turkish charger for a quarter of an hour at a time ; his face was pale ...
... thousand men lay before Metz , and all his thoughts were bent on that celebrated siege , it was with difficulty , when he visited the lines , that he could sit his Turkish charger for a quarter of an hour at a time ; his face was pale ...
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... thousand ; fishing craft only were found in its sand - choked haven ; yet , true to its martial fame , it sent a gallant band of seamen to die at Trafalgar . This ancient seaport was now the scene of a debarka- tion more remarkable than ...
... thousand ; fishing craft only were found in its sand - choked haven ; yet , true to its martial fame , it sent a gallant band of seamen to die at Trafalgar . This ancient seaport was now the scene of a debarka- tion more remarkable than ...
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... ' Joan Gin . Sepulveda ; De Rebus gestis Caroli V. Lib . xxx . c . 25 . Opera , 4 tom . 4 ° Madriti 1780 , ii . p . 528 . remarked to Quixada that he hoped the thirty thousand ducats 42 [ CHAP . III . CLOISTER LIFE OF CHAPTER III.
... ' Joan Gin . Sepulveda ; De Rebus gestis Caroli V. Lib . xxx . c . 25 . Opera , 4 tom . 4 ° Madriti 1780 , ii . p . 528 . remarked to Quixada that he hoped the thirty thousand ducats 42 [ CHAP . III . CLOISTER LIFE OF CHAPTER III.
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William Stirling Maxwell. remarked to Quixada that he hoped the thirty thousand ducats , with which he counted upon paying his people , had been lodged there in safety . The day's march of four leagues closed at Valdestillas , a village ...
William Stirling Maxwell. remarked to Quixada that he hoped the thirty thousand ducats , with which he counted upon paying his people , had been lodged there in safety . The day's march of four leagues closed at Valdestillas , a village ...
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... thousand of her best troops into Italy . Philip the Second , too faithless himself to be sur- prised at the bad faith of his royal brother , took vigor . ous measures to frustrate his endeavours . He gave the 1 ' Heretici , scismatici ...
... thousand of her best troops into Italy . Philip the Second , too faithless himself to be sur- prised at the bad faith of his royal brother , took vigor . ous measures to frustrate his endeavours . He gave the 1 ' Heretici , scismatici ...
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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...