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Side vii
... Queen of Sweden 218 V. Peace of the Pyrenees in 1659 , and of Oli- va in 1660 . Restoration of the English Monarchy . Death of Cardinal Mazarin 226 VI . Louis XIV . makes himself respected a- broad , and puts his Kingdom in a flou ...
... Queen of Sweden 218 V. Peace of the Pyrenees in 1659 , and of Oli- va in 1660 . Restoration of the English Monarchy . Death of Cardinal Mazarin 226 VI . Louis XIV . makes himself respected a- broad , and puts his Kingdom in a flou ...
Side x
... Queen Anne and the Affairs of England . Death of Louis XIV . 393 • 401 III . Rise of Czar Peter the Great , till the War with Charles XII . IV . Rise of Charles XII . King of Sweden . He triumphs over all his Enemies , and de- thrones ...
... Queen Anne and the Affairs of England . Death of Louis XIV . 393 • 401 III . Rise of Czar Peter the Great , till the War with Charles XII . IV . Rise of Charles XII . King of Sweden . He triumphs over all his Enemies , and de- thrones ...
Side 3
... queen's peevish humour , was ungrateful enough to betray him . She endeavoured to put in force the promise of marriage which she had received , notwithstanding the zeal of the minister , and the court of Spain fanned He recals the fire ...
... queen's peevish humour , was ungrateful enough to betray him . She endeavoured to put in force the promise of marriage which she had received , notwithstanding the zeal of the minister , and the court of Spain fanned He recals the fire ...
Side 11
... queen's coronation ; a ceremony which she insisted upon with too much eagerness . Pas- sing along a street , his coach was entangled ; and , his footmen quitting it , Ravillac , a des- perate fanatic , who had long formed a design to ...
... queen's coronation ; a ceremony which she insisted upon with too much eagerness . Pas- sing along a street , his coach was entangled ; and , his footmen quitting it , Ravillac , a des- perate fanatic , who had long formed a design to ...
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... queen . yet in the scabbard , but shall be drawn , if the queen be not this instant granted a title which is her due by the order of nature , and the rules of justice ; and that court , being no longer free to act , passed an arret ...
... queen . yet in the scabbard , but shall be drawn , if the queen be not this instant granted a title which is her due by the order of nature , and the rules of justice ; and that court , being no longer free to act , passed an arret ...
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Almindelige termer og sætninger
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Side 319 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Side 321 - And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Side 348 - ... bequeath the whole Spanish monarchy to the duke of Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV. 2. Such was the astonishment of all Europe at beholding a prince of the Bourbon family ascend the throne of Spain, that all the powers except the empire remained for some time in perfect tranquillity. The duke of Anjou, under the name of Philip V. set out to take possession of the crown, and his grandfather said to him at parting, there are no more Pyrennees. 3. In Italy the resistance to the will of Charles II....
Side 441 - He carried all the virtues of heroes to an excess, at which they are as dangerous as their opposite vices. His resolution, hardened into obstinacy, occasioned his misfortunes in the Ukraine, and detained him five years in Turkey ; his liberality, degenerating into profusion, ruined Sweden ; his courage...
Side 173 - To maintain that the sun is placed immoveable in the centre of the world, is an opinion absurd in itself, false in philosophy, and formally heretical, because it is expressly Contrary to the Scriptures ; to maintain that the earth is not placed in the centre of the world, that it is not immoveable, and that it has even a daily motion of rotation is also an absurd proposition, false in philosophy, and at least erroneous in point of faith.
Side 172 - And, on the contrary, how ours has expanded, not only with our eyes, but even more with the instruments we have applied to them! Galileo and the telescope is the classic example; who has not envied him, for his first glimpses of the mountains of the moon, the satellites of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, the banked starclouds of the Milky Way? During those few months in 1609-10 there occurred the greatest expansion of man's mental horizons that has ever occurred in the whole history of science. The...
Side 401 - ... your obligations to God; recollect that you owe to him all that you are. Endeavour to preserve peace with your neighbours. I have been too fond of war; do not imitate me in that, any more than the excessive expenses I have gone into. Take counsel in every thing, and endeavour to know what is best, that you may always follow it. Relieve your people as soon as possible, and do what I have had the misfortune not to be able to do myself.
Side 343 - Spain's indignation at this parcelling out of his dominions may be more easily conceived than expressed. Anxious to preserve his empire entire, he made a will, by which he bequeathed the whole of it to the prince of Bavaria. That young prince, however, died suddenly. Louis and...
Side 266 - The richest families, and those which were most zealous for liberty, prepared to flee into the farthest part of the world, and embark for Batavia. They took a list of all the vessels capable of making the voyage, and made a calculation of the numbers they could embark. It was found that fifty thousand families could take refuge in their new country. Holland would no more have existed, but at the extremity of the East Indies. Its provinces in Europe, which purchase their corn only with the riches...
Side 16 - ... title we possess), I have delivered it from slavery and ruin. I desire at present to restore it to its former power and to its ancient splendour. Participate, my subjects, in this second glory, as you have participated in the first. I have not called you hither, as my predecessors have done, to force you blindly to approve my will. I have caused you to be assembled to receive your counsels, to believe them, to follow them, and, in a word, to put myself in guardianship under your hands. This is...