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... Italian stranger , the bishop of Rome , to play Rex over them , and care not , if all the world were set a fire , so that they , with their Italian lord , might reign alone . So fond are we Englishmen of strange and foreign things : so ...
... Italian stranger , the bishop of Rome , to play Rex over them , and care not , if all the world were set a fire , so that they , with their Italian lord , might reign alone . So fond are we Englishmen of strange and foreign things : so ...
Page 50
... Italy . -Terra potens Armis atque vbere Gleba . Neither is that State ( which for any thing I know , is almost peculiar to England , and hardly to be found any where else , except it be perhaps in Poland ) to be passed ouer ; I meane ...
... Italy . -Terra potens Armis atque vbere Gleba . Neither is that State ( which for any thing I know , is almost peculiar to England , and hardly to be found any where else , except it be perhaps in Poland ) to be passed ouer ; I meane ...
Page 72
... Italians have gardens fitted to such use , with nets , bushes , glades , sparing no cost or industry , and are very much affected with the sport . Tycho Brahe , that great astronomer , in the Chorography of his Isle of Huena , and ...
... Italians have gardens fitted to such use , with nets , bushes , glades , sparing no cost or industry , and are very much affected with the sport . Tycho Brahe , that great astronomer , in the Chorography of his Isle of Huena , and ...
Page 76
... Italians , once fight for a whole army : quod jucundissimum spectaculum in vitâ dicit suâ , the pleasantest sight that ever he saw in his life . Who would not have been affected with_such a spectacle ? Or that single combat of Breaute ...
... Italians , once fight for a whole army : quod jucundissimum spectaculum in vitâ dicit suâ , the pleasantest sight that ever he saw in his life . Who would not have been affected with_such a spectacle ? Or that single combat of Breaute ...
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... Italy and France maintaining his repudiating of Queen Katherin of Spain ; and his Parliament ( for the rest ) authorizing the Divorces and decapitations of his following Wives , the dis- solutions of the Monasteries , and divers others ...
... Italy and France maintaining his repudiating of Queen Katherin of Spain ; and his Parliament ( for the rest ) authorizing the Divorces and decapitations of his following Wives , the dis- solutions of the Monasteries , and divers others ...
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