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... entered into a league against the government- -a league which is known in history as the " Cabal of Pretenders . " At the head of this league were the Guises , the Vendomes , Augustin Potier , the Epernons , the 2 THE HISTORY OF FRANCE .
... entered into a league against the government- -a league which is known in history as the " Cabal of Pretenders . " At the head of this league were the Guises , the Vendomes , Augustin Potier , the Epernons , the 2 THE HISTORY OF FRANCE .
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... entering Paris . This he was obliged to abandon , on account of the threatening attitude of the Parisian tradesmen . Thus thwarted , he re- curred to the ruinous routine of creating and selling new offices , thinking this scheme would ...
... entering Paris . This he was obliged to abandon , on account of the threatening attitude of the Parisian tradesmen . Thus thwarted , he re- curred to the ruinous routine of creating and selling new offices , thinking this scheme would ...
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... entered the north of France with a considerable force , and was marching , without opposition , towards the capital , intending to liberate the princes from Vincennes . His designs , however , were disco- vered , and the prisoners were ...
... entered the north of France with a considerable force , and was marching , without opposition , towards the capital , intending to liberate the princes from Vincennes . His designs , however , were disco- vered , and the prisoners were ...
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... entered Paris triumphant over his enemies , on the 21st of October , 1652. On the following day , which was the anniversary of the famous declaration of 1648 , he held a bed of justice , where he showed a disposition to maintain his ...
... entered Paris triumphant over his enemies , on the 21st of October , 1652. On the following day , which was the anniversary of the famous declaration of 1648 , he held a bed of justice , where he showed a disposition to maintain his ...
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... entered the kingdom once more , at the head of 30,000 men . But his endeavours to make progress in France were vain . The skill , promptitude , and valour of Turenne tri- umphed over him , and he was compelled to retire into Flanders ...
... entered the kingdom once more , at the head of 30,000 men . But his endeavours to make progress in France were vain . The skill , promptitude , and valour of Turenne tri- umphed over him , and he was compelled to retire into Flanders ...
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Seite 68 - AND after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: for true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Seite 40 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Seite 430 - Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
Seite 40 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Seite 40 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Seite 159 - There, through the prison of unbounded wilds, Barr'd by the hand of Nature from escape, Wide roams the Russian exile. Nought around Strikes his sad eye but deserts lost in snow...
Seite 5 - Topt with all titles, spreading all our reaches, As if each private arm would sphere the earth, We must to Virtue for her guide resort, Or we shall shipwreck in our safest port.
Seite 100 - In tempests ; quits his grasp upon the winds, And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery boil upon the skin, And putrefy the breath of blooming health. He calls for Famine, and the meagre fiend Blows mildew from between his shrivell'd lips, And taints the golden ear. He springs his mines, And desolates a nation at a blast.
Seite 432 - HERE is the spring where waters flow, To quench our heat of sin : Here is the tree where truth doth grow, To lead our lives therein : Here is the Judge that stints the strife, When men's devices fail : Here is the Bread that feeds the life, That death cannot assail.
Seite 463 - Egyptian Thebes ; Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves ; Palmyra, central in the desert, fell ; And the arts died by which they had been raised.