Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding Centuries ...T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 |
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... Spain , by his father , at the age of eighteen . He was , however , difpenfed from his holy orders , on marrying the rich heiress of the Houfe of Albret . On his death - bed Cæfar Borgia faid , " I had provided in the course of my life ...
... Spain , by his father , at the age of eighteen . He was , however , difpenfed from his holy orders , on marrying the rich heiress of the Houfe of Albret . On his death - bed Cæfar Borgia faid , " I had provided in the course of my life ...
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... on his Embaffy , and who was refolved to be even with the King of Spain ( Philip the Second ) at his Court , for this infolent and impertinent " beha- " behaviour towards his Nation . So the next " 156 CHARLES THE FIFTH .
... on his Embaffy , and who was refolved to be even with the King of Spain ( Philip the Second ) at his Court , for this infolent and impertinent " beha- " behaviour towards his Nation . So the next " 156 CHARLES THE FIFTH .
Side 157
... Spain ap- " proached the Altar to fwear to the obfervance " of the treaty concluded between himself and " the King of France , Brufquet and his valet " cried out with a loud voice , Largeffe ! Lar- cc geffe ! and each of them having a ...
... Spain ap- " proached the Altar to fwear to the obfervance " of the treaty concluded between himself and " the King of France , Brufquet and his valet " cried out with a loud voice , Largeffe ! Lar- cc geffe ! and each of them having a ...
Side 158
... Spain . " On Eafter - day enfuing , the Emperor , being " in his little palace in the Park at Bruffels , ( to " which he had long retired to feclude himself " from the world , but who still meddled with << public bufinefs , ) gave the ...
... Spain . " On Eafter - day enfuing , the Emperor , being " in his little palace in the Park at Bruffels , ( to " which he had long retired to feclude himself " from the world , but who still meddled with << public bufinefs , ) gave the ...
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... Spain quite a child , " without either hair or beard . The Admiral , " willing to favour his Sovereign , faid , Sire , to " be fure his Majefty has three or four white " hairs ; and fo have many others that are much < c younger than ...
... Spain quite a child , " without either hair or beard . The Admiral , " willing to favour his Sovereign , faid , Sire , to " be fure his Majefty has three or four white " hairs ; and fo have many others that are much < c younger than ...
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Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... William Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1798 |
Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... William Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1798 |
Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... William Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1798 |
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Side 50 - His line is uniformly grand. Character and beauty were admitted only as far as they could be made subservient to grandeur.
Side 237 - King thefe €C twenty years there ; for the whole country fell " fuddenly to him, not one town ftanding out. " When the King of Spain told the Count Oli...
Side 134 - He then turned to the people, and stretching out his hands, cried with a very loud voice, " Good Christian people ! for God's love be well aware of these men ; else they will beguile you, and lead you blindfold into hell with themselves.
Side 50 - ... far as they could be made subservient to grandeur ; the child, the female, meanness, deformity, were by him indiscriminately stamped with grandeur. A beggar rose from his hand the patriarch of poverty; the hump of his dwarf is impressed with dignity ; his women are moulds of generation ; his infants teem with the man ; his men are a race of giants. This is the
Side 287 - s were chiefly Romans and Florentines; men, we were told, whom fometimes misfortune and fometimes inclination, but more frequently extravagance and neceflity, drive from their refpcdive countries, and who, having relations or friends in St. Marino, eftablifh themfelves in that cheap city, where they fubfift on the wreck of their fortunes, and elude the purfuit of their creditors. Next morning Bonelli having invited feveral of his fellowcitizens to drink chocolate, we learned from them, that the morality...
Side 150 - ... have no place in his countenance, his eyes only do betray as much as can be picked out of him. He maketh me oft think of Solomon's saying, — ' Heaven is high ; the earth is deep ; a king's heart is unsearchable.
Side 279 - About two o'clock in the afternoon, we left the Borgo to climb up to the Citta, carrying our fwords in our right hands ; a precaution which the company we had juft left warranted in this modern republic, but which, as...
Side 13 - The first thing that I would therefore suggest to you is, that you ought to be grateful to God, and continually to recollect that it is not through your merits, your prudence, or your solicitude, that this event has taken place, but through his favour...
Side 421 - Much has been faid of the honour he received " by expiring in the arms of Francis the Firft. *' It was indeed an honour, by which deftiny in *' fome degree atoned to Francis for his difafter