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Page 140 - Paris, imagining that their patrons to Francois de Guise, p. 688. that of Amboise. An attempt on the part of the Court to seize the two chiefs led to a third war. With the Chancellor L'Hopital, the councils of the King lost all moderation ; the Protestants made La Rochelle their stronghold instead of Orleans; they taxed themselves to pay their German auxiliaries, who were being brought to them across France by the Duke of Zweibriicken and the Prince of Orange. In spite of their defeat at Jarnac and...
Page 35 - James III., whose estimate of himself was accurate enough, feared that his two brothers, the Duke of Albany and the Earl of Mar, might try to supplant so despicable a King. The predictions of an astrologer decided him on confining them in the Castle of Edinburgh. Albany escaped, and the cowardly King thought to secure his own safety by opening the veins of his younger brother. The...
Page 12 - O Rome! I give you over to the hands of a people who will wipe you out from among the nations! I see them descending like lions. Pestilence comes marching hand in hand with war. The deaths will be so many that the buriers shall go through the streets crying out: Who hath dead, who hath dead? and one will bring his father, and another his son. O Rome! I cry again to you to repent, Repent, Venice! Milan, repent!
Page 167 - covenant" by which they engaged themselves to defend against all dangers the sovereign, the religion, the laws, and the liberties of the country. Messengers carried the covenant from village to village into the most distant quarters of the kingdom, just as the burning cross had been formerly carried into the mountains to call all the vassals of a Highland chief to war. The covenanters asked for arms and money from Cardinal Richelieu; and the English army, having refused to fight against its "brothers...
Page 157 - ... Philip II., repulsed by the Netherlands and England, turned all his forces against France. The brother of Guise, the Due de Mayenne, possessed of equal talent, but less popular, had not sufficient influence to balance the gold and intrigues of Spain. As soon as the news of the death of Guise reached Paris, the people put on mourning, and the preachers thundered; the churches were hung with black, and on the altars were placed waxen images of the King, which were pierced with needles. Mayenne...
Page 296 - May 1 : the Spanish and French invade Portugal, and an army sent from England to assist the Portuguese.
Page 15 - ... of god," hanged the officers of the Parliament, married his own sister, and beat his confessor when he refused to absolve him.d For three years the brother of the Duke of Brittany was seen begging his bread through the bars of his prison, until his brother caused him to be strangled. It was toward the King that the hopes of the unhappy people turned ; it was from him that some alleviation of their misery was looked for. Feudalism, which in the tenth century had been the salvation of Europe, had...
Page 197 - THE discovery of America," says Voltaire, "is the greatest event which has ever taken place in this world of ours, one half of which had hitherto been unknown to the other. All that until now appeared extraordinary seems to disappear before this sort of new creation. " Columbus, struck by the achievements of the Portuguese, conceived that something still greater might be effected, and from the inspection of a...
Page 50 - LETTER TO THE CITY OF TOLEDO. " To thee, the crown of Spain, and the light of the whole world, free from the time of the mighty Goths, to thee, who by shedding the blood of strangers as well as thy own blood hast recovered liberty for thyself and thy...
Page 176 - ... strongly opposed its meddling in the quarrel ; but his ruin and death left no restraint on the policy which prompted the republic to aid the Protestant cause. Fifty thousand florins a month to the revolted Protestants, and a like sum to the princes of the union, were for some time advanced. Frederick, the elector palatine, sonin-law of the king of England, and nephew of the prince, was chosen by the Bohemians for their king; but in spite of the enthusiastic wishes of the English nation, James...