History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, Volume 3J. B. Lippincott, 1837 - Spain |
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... Authorities for the Account of Philip CHAPTER XVIII . COLUMBUS . - HIS RETURN TO SPAIN . - HIS DEATH Columbus's last Voyage He learns Isabella's Death His Illness · He visits the Court . Ferdinand's unjust Treatment of him . He declines ...
... Authorities for the Account of Philip CHAPTER XVIII . COLUMBUS . - HIS RETURN TO SPAIN . - HIS DEATH Columbus's last Voyage He learns Isabella's Death His Illness · He visits the Court . Ferdinand's unjust Treatment of him . He declines ...
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... Authorities for the History of Navarre CHAPTER XXIV . • PAGE 380 • 381 381 38a 383 DEATH OF GONSALVO De Cordova . - ILLNESS AND DEATH OF FERDINAND . - HIS CHARACTER Maximilian's Pretensions Gonsalvo ordered to Italy General Enthusiasm ...
... Authorities for the History of Navarre CHAPTER XXIV . • PAGE 380 • 381 381 38a 383 DEATH OF GONSALVO De Cordova . - ILLNESS AND DEATH OF FERDINAND . - HIS CHARACTER Maximilian's Pretensions Gonsalvo ordered to Italy General Enthusiasm ...
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... authority of Burchard , refers this remarkable prediction , which time so fully verified , to Sforza , on his quitting his capital . ( Hist . de Venise , tom . iii . p . 326 , 2d ed . ) Martyr's letter , however , is dated some months ...
... authority of Burchard , refers this remarkable prediction , which time so fully verified , to Sforza , on his quitting his capital . ( Hist . de Venise , tom . iii . p . 326 , 2d ed . ) Martyr's letter , however , is dated some months ...
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... authority , and still more limited revenues , so scanty , indeed , as to gain him the contemptuous epithet among the Italians of pochi denari , or " the Moneyless . " He had conceived himself , indeed , greatly injured , both on the ...
... authority , and still more limited revenues , so scanty , indeed , as to gain him the contemptuous epithet among the Italians of pochi denari , or " the Moneyless . " He had conceived himself , indeed , greatly injured , both on the ...
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... authorities differ more irreconcilably than usual in the details of the siege . I have followed Paolo Giovio , a contemporary , and per- sonally acquainted with the principal actors . All agree in the only fact in which one would ...
... authorities differ more irreconcilably than usual in the details of the siege . I have followed Paolo Giovio , a contemporary , and per- sonally acquainted with the principal actors . All agree in the only fact in which one would ...
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Page 190 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is -found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 401 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 205 - When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion ; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion ; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Page 473 - Certainly his times for good commonwealth's laws did excel. So as he may justly be celebrated for the best lawgiver to this nation, after King Edward the First ; for his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar ; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more happy ; after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroical times.
Page 188 - Among her moral qualities, the most conspicuous, perhaps, was her magnanimity. She betrayed nothing little or selfish, in thought or action. Her schemes were vast, and executed in the same noble spirit in which they were conceived. She never employed doubtful agents or sinister measures, but the most direct and open policy.
Page 401 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Page 188 - ... as presents to her friends. Naturally of a sedate, though cheerful temper, she had little taste for the frivolous amusements which make up so much of a court life ; and, if she encouraged the presence of minstrels and musicians in her palace, it was to wean her young nobility from the coarser and less intellectual pleasures to which they were addicted.
Page 193 - I find them so curiously penned, so full of branches and circumstances, that I think the inquisition of Spain used not so many questions to comprehend and to trap their priests.
Page 290 - Beneficia eo usque laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere, pro gratia odium redditur.
Page 184 - falls powerless by my side, for very sorrow. The world has lost its noblest ornament; a loss to be deplored not only by Spain, which she has so long carried forward in the career of glory, but by every nation in Christendom; for she was the mirror of every virtue, the shield of the innocent, and an avenging sword to the wicked. I know none of her sex, in ancient or modern times, who in my judgment is at all worthy to be named with this incomparable woman.