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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... prisoner , and condemned to be burnt for sorcery and magic 51 1435 Death of the Duke of Bedford , and the utter ruin of the English affairs on the continent Feeble character of Henry VI . 1443 He is married to Margaret of Anjou 1447 ...
... prisoner , and condemned to be burnt for sorcery and magic 51 1435 Death of the Duke of Bedford , and the utter ruin of the English affairs on the continent Feeble character of Henry VI . 1443 He is married to Margaret of Anjou 1447 ...
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... prisoner ibid . The duke of York returns from Ireland , and supports his claim to the English crown ibid . He is acknowledged the true and lawful heir of the mo- narchy by the parliament - Is killed in the battle of Wakefield , ( Dec ...
... prisoner ibid . The duke of York returns from Ireland , and supports his claim to the English crown ibid . He is acknowledged the true and lawful heir of the mo- narchy by the parliament - Is killed in the battle of Wakefield , ( Dec ...
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... prisoner by Charles the Bold , duke of Burgundy 90 Obtains his liberty on humiliating conditions ibid . The subsequent part of his reign a continued scene of tyranny and cruelty ibid . He greatly enlarges the French monarchy , and ...
... prisoner by Charles the Bold , duke of Burgundy 90 Obtains his liberty on humiliating conditions ibid . The subsequent part of his reign a continued scene of tyranny and cruelty ibid . He greatly enlarges the French monarchy , and ...
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... prisoner 102 He becomes master of Prusa , the seat of the Turks ! emperors ; but soon after abandons that city , and al his conquests in Asia Minor Wretched state of the Greek Empire ibid . 103 1421 Amurath II . invests Constantinople ...
... prisoner 102 He becomes master of Prusa , the seat of the Turks ! emperors ; but soon after abandons that city , and al his conquests in Asia Minor Wretched state of the Greek Empire ibid . 103 1421 Amurath II . invests Constantinople ...
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... prisoner 120 ibid . 121 Henry turns his eyes towards the affairs on the conti- nent 1492 Invades France ibid . 122 Concludes , at . Estaples , an advantageous treaty with Lewis XI . - 123 Story of Perkin Warbeck , a new impostor , who ...
... prisoner 120 ibid . 121 Henry turns his eyes towards the affairs on the conti- nent 1492 Invades France ibid . 122 Concludes , at . Estaples , an advantageous treaty with Lewis XI . - 123 Story of Perkin Warbeck , a new impostor , who ...
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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.