 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 Seiten
...who complied with his good pleasure, and courted his protection, he used great civility, generosity, and bounty. To reduce three nations, which perfectly...denied him. To manifest which there needs only two instances. The first is, when those of the valley of Lucerne had unwarily risen in arms against the... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 406 Seiten
...that was indevoted to him, and wished his ruin, was an instance of a very prodigious address. But bis greatness at home was but a shadow of the glory he...denied him. To manifest which there needs only two instances. The first is, when those of the valley of Lucerne had unwarily risen in arms against the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 Seiten
...him most, France, Spain, or the Low Countries, where his friendship was current at the value he pnt upon it. As they did all sacrifice their honour and...denied him. To manifest which there needs only two instances. The first is, when those of the valley of Lucerne had unwarily risen in arms against the... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 Seiten
...France, Spain, or the Low Countries, where his friendship was current at the value he put upon it ; that as they did all sacrifice their honour and their interest to his pleasure, so there was nothing he could have demanded that either of them would have denied him." But, notwithstanding... | |
 | Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.), Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1839 - 560 Seiten
...complied with his good pleasure, and courted his protection, he used a wonderful civility, generosity, and bounty. To reduce three nations, which perfectly...denied him. To manifest which, there needs only two instances. The first is, when those of the valley of Lucerne had unwarily rebelled against the duke... | |
 | 1839 - 466 Seiten
...entire obedience to all his dictates ; to awe and govern those nations by an army that was undevoted to him and wished his ruin ; was an instance of a...denied him. To manifest which there needs only two instances. The first is when those of the Valley of Lucerne had unwarily rebelled against the duke... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1843 - 810 Seiten
...his good pleasure, and courted his protection, he used a wonderful civility, generosity, and hounty. To reduce three nations, which perfectly hated him,...denied him. To manifest which, there needs only two instances. The first is, when those of the valley of Lucerne had unwarily rebelled against the duke... | |
 | 1845 - 570 Seiten
...his friendship was current at the value he put upon it. As they did all sacrifice their honour and interest to his pleasure, so there is nothing he could...demanded that either of them would have denied him." In Clarendon's eyes Cromwell is of course a very wicked, but he is also a very great, man. " He was,"... | |
 | 1846 - 396 Seiten
...his friendship was current at the value he put upon it. As they did all sacrifice their honour and interest to his pleasure, so there is nothing he could...demanded that either of them would have denied him." In Clarendon's eyes Cromwell is of course a very wicked, but he is also a very great, man. " He was,"... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1848 - 334 Seiten
...was current at the value he put upon it. As they did all sacrifice their honour and their interests to his pleasure, so there is nothing he could have...denied him. To manifest which there needs only two instances. The first is when those of the Valley of Lucerne had unwarily rebelled against the Duke... | |
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But his greatness at home was but a shadow of the glory he had abroad. It was hard to discover which feared him most, France, Spain, or the Low Countries, where his friendship was current at the value he put upon it. As they did all sacrifice their honour... 
