Modern Europe, a school history. To 1859Simpkin, Marshall, 1860 - 501 Seiten |
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... army , captured his capital , and restored the exiled Moorish king to his throne . In the midst of these victories Francis invaded Savoy . Charles was terribly indignant , and loaded his rival with such violent invectives , that Francis ...
... army , captured his capital , and restored the exiled Moorish king to his throne . In the midst of these victories Francis invaded Savoy . Charles was terribly indignant , and loaded his rival with such violent invectives , that Francis ...
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... army which Charles sent to reduce the rebellious city of Magdeburg , and , while he was besieging the city , he was negotiating with the generals who defended it for a union against the Emperor . Magdeburg surrendered in 1551. Its ...
... army which Charles sent to reduce the rebellious city of Magdeburg , and , while he was besieging the city , he was negotiating with the generals who defended it for a union against the Emperor . Magdeburg surrendered in 1551. Its ...
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... army , marched towards Innspruck , where the Emperor was quartered . Charles was thunderstruck when he heard the tidings of this desertion , and was in no condition to resist him . He endeavoured to gain time by negotiations , but these ...
... army , marched towards Innspruck , where the Emperor was quartered . Charles was thunderstruck when he heard the tidings of this desertion , and was in no condition to resist him . He endeavoured to gain time by negotiations , but these ...
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... army . The King sought in vain to arrest rine de its progress ; his wife , the celebrated Catharine de Medici , Catha- inciting him to the most cruel atrocities . His accidental Medici . death at a tournament , in 1559 , for a while put ...
... army . The King sought in vain to arrest rine de its progress ; his wife , the celebrated Catharine de Medici , Catha- inciting him to the most cruel atrocities . His accidental Medici . death at a tournament , in 1559 , for a while put ...
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... army and an enthusiastic capital on his side . The peace of Verviens , in 1598 , left the King without foreign or domestic enemies . From that period to his death , his life was devoted to the welfare of his country . His first act was ...
... army and an enthusiastic capital on his side . The peace of Verviens , in 1598 , left the King without foreign or domestic enemies . From that period to his death , his life was devoted to the welfare of his country . His first act was ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
A. D. Ch army ascendency Austria battle became bishops Bohemia Cardinal Cardinal Mazarin Catharine Catholic cause character Charles Charles II church civil clergy colonies command commenced conquest court Cromwell crown death died disgraced Duke Earl edict Elector Elector of Saxony Elizabeth Emperor empire enemies England English Europe forces France Frederic French genius Germany Henry Holland hostile House humiliation hundred thousand India intrigues invaded James Jansenists jealousy Jesuits King kingdom land laws liberty Lord Louis XIV Luther Mary Mazarin ment military millions minister monarch nation nobles palace Parlia Parliament party peace peace of Westphalia persecution Peter Poland political Pope Prince of Condé Protestantism Protestants provinces Queen racter Reformation reign religion religious resolved Richelieu royal Russia Saxony Scotland Scots secured Silesia sion soon sovereign Spain Spanish Monarchy spirit succeeded success suppressed Sweden thousand pounds throne tion took Tories treaty troops Turenne Turks victory Wallenstein William
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 392 - ... necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion, how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage, how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.
Seite 122 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Seite 52 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Seite 291 - In the pride of victory, Bajazet threatened that he would besiege Buda ; that he would subdue the adjacent countries of Germany and Italy ; and that he would feed his horse with a bushel of oats on the altar of St. Peter at Rome.
Seite 305 - No! surely no! It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
Seite 391 - America — that he had called a New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
Seite 141 - ... power in their own hands ; their meddling in private matters between party and party, contrary to the institution of Parliaments ; and their injustice and partiality in those matters, and the scandalous lives of some of the chief of them ; these things, my lord, do give too much ground for people to open their mouths against them and to dislike them.
Seite 391 - Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know...
Seite 347 - He shut his eyes, but could not close his ears against the imprecations of the multitude. A woman, breaking from the crowd, exclaimed, " Murderers of all my kindred, your agony fills me with joy. Descend to hell covered with the curses of every mother in France !" Twenty of his comrades were executed before him.
Seite 305 - My hold of the Colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.