The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: and a View of the Progress of Society, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763, Volume 2William Young Birch and Abraham Small, 1802 |
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... obliged to resign the government ibid . 1389 He recovers his authority 6 Addicted to low pleasures ibid . 1397 Intrigues and murder of the Duke of Gloucester ibid . 1398 Unpopular conduct of Richard II . 7 1399 Henry , Duke of Lancaster ...
... obliged to resign the government ibid . 1389 He recovers his authority 6 Addicted to low pleasures ibid . 1397 Intrigues and murder of the Duke of Gloucester ibid . 1398 Unpopular conduct of Richard II . 7 1399 Henry , Duke of Lancaster ...
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... obliged to resign the administration of go- vernment into the hands of his rival 1458 A civil war 63 ibid . 1459 The Duke of York is deserted by his troops , and flies into Ireland · · 64 1460 The Earl of Warwick defeats the royal army ...
... obliged to resign the administration of go- vernment into the hands of his rival 1458 A civil war 63 ibid . 1459 The Duke of York is deserted by his troops , and flies into Ireland · · 64 1460 The Earl of Warwick defeats the royal army ...
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... ibid . ibid . 209 ibid . - 210 Cortes obliged to abandon the city of Mexico ibid . The Mexicans pursue him , and are totally defeated in the battle of Otumba ibid . A. D. 1521 Final subjection of the Mexican empire Page Final CONTENTS .
... ibid . ibid . 209 ibid . - 210 Cortes obliged to abandon the city of Mexico ibid . The Mexicans pursue him , and are totally defeated in the battle of Otumba ibid . A. D. 1521 Final subjection of the Mexican empire Page Final CONTENTS .
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... obliged to retreat , after having lost one half of his army , without making himself master of one important place 1537 Indecent display of the resentment of Francis 255 256 A suspension of arms takes place between the hostile rivals ...
... obliged to retreat , after having lost one half of his army , without making himself master of one important place 1537 Indecent display of the resentment of Francis 255 256 A suspension of arms takes place between the hostile rivals ...
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... obliged to reimbark in the greatest distress His fortitude under all his disasters ibid . The utter failure of his enterprise encourages the King of France to commence hostilities against him 267 Charles secures the fidelity of the ...
... obliged to reimbark in the greatest distress His fortitude under all his disasters ibid . The utter failure of his enterprise encourages the King of France to commence hostilities against him 267 Charles secures the fidelity of the ...
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Page 364 - ... ease, and very little for the enjoyment of private pleasure ; that, either in a pacific or hostile manner, he had visited Germany nine times, Spain six times, France four times, Italy seven times, the Low...
Page 354 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what the word did make it, That I believe, and take it.
Page 365 - With these, however, I dispense, and shall consider your concern for the welfare of your subjects and your love of them, as the best and most acceptable testimony of your gratitude to me. It is in your power...
Page 282 - And, to speak a truth, never prince had wife more loyal in all duty, and in all true affection, than you have ever found in Anne Boleyn, with which name and place I could willingly have contented myself, if God and your grace's pleasure had been so pleased.
Page 213 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
Page 67 - Perceiving his own popularity, he supposed that now was the time to lay his claim to the crown ; and his friend Warwick, assembling the citizens in St. John's Fields, pronounced an harangue, setting forth the title of Edward, and inveighing against the tyranny and usurpation of the house of Lancaster.
Page 66 - The duke himself was killed in the action : and as his body was found among the slain, the head was cut off by Margaret's orders, and fixed on the gates of York, with a paper crown upon it, in derision of his pretended title.
Page 212 - Vincent Valverde, chaplain to the expedition, advanced with a crucifix in one hand, and a breviary in the other, and in a long discourse...
Page 364 - He observed, that, from the seventeenth year of his age, he had dedicated all his thoughts and attention to public objects, reserving no portion of his time for the indulgence...
Page 341 - She even refused to accept of the crown; pleaded the preferable right of the two princesses ; expressed her dread of the consequences attending an enterprise so dangerous, not to say so criminal; and desired to remain in that private station in which she was born.