Lives of the Illustrious: (the Biographical Magazine)., Band 7J. Passmore Edwards, 1855 |
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... court for the purpose of reporting about the settle - nificant bishop of Luçon , wearing ques- ment of the Fontevrault business , Father Joseph spoke of Richelieu to Marie de Medici as of a superior prelate , who could render her the ...
... court for the purpose of reporting about the settle - nificant bishop of Luçon , wearing ques- ment of the Fontevrault business , Father Joseph spoke of Richelieu to Marie de Medici as of a superior prelate , who could render her the ...
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... that were ; the Under - secretary of State Barbin , Concini , and Leonora Galigaï , became the objects of his con- stant worship . The storm of factions was agitating the Court ; amidst a crowd of petty CARDINAL RICHELIEU . 15.
... that were ; the Under - secretary of State Barbin , Concini , and Leonora Galigaï , became the objects of his con- stant worship . The storm of factions was agitating the Court ; amidst a crowd of petty CARDINAL RICHELIEU . 15.
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... Court , and , strengthened by crowds of adventurers still anxious for plunder and thirsting for blood , they raised the standard of civil war . Such was the general desolation that the King had an army to attend his progress , when he ...
... Court , and , strengthened by crowds of adventurers still anxious for plunder and thirsting for blood , they raised the standard of civil war . Such was the general desolation that the King had an army to attend his progress , when he ...
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... Court he adduced his withdrawal from public business as a proof of the most absolute submission ; to the Queen - mother he described it as the result of his unre- mitting zeal for her service , and as a new persecution on the part of ...
... Court he adduced his withdrawal from public business as a proof of the most absolute submission ; to the Queen - mother he described it as the result of his unre- mitting zeal for her service , and as a new persecution on the part of ...
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... Court had returned to Paris , the car- dinal's disgrace seemed inevitable . But he determined to make a final effort , and , securing an interview of a quarter of an hour with Louis XIII . at Ver- sailles , he frightened the monarch ...
... Court had returned to Paris , the car- dinal's disgrace seemed inevitable . But he determined to make a final effort , and , securing an interview of a quarter of an hour with Louis XIII . at Ver- sailles , he frightened the monarch ...
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Seite 120 - Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war ; In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.
Seite 183 - Any government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws, rule, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Seite 201 - No more — no more — no more" (Such language holds the solemn sea To the sands upon the shore) Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree, Or the stricken eagle soar!
Seite 32 - This lovely bud, so young and fair, Called hence by early doom, Just came to show how sweet a flower In Paradise would bloom.
Seite 85 - Immediately I received strength to believe, and the full beams of the Sun of Righteousness shone upon me. I saw the sufficiency of the atonement He had made, my pardon sealed in His blood, and all the fulness and completeness of His justification. In a moment I believed, and received the gospel.
Seite 271 - Aliens ! good God ! was Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords, and did he not start up and exclaim, ' Hold ! I have seen the aliens do their duty ?' The Duke of Wellington is not a man of an excitable temperament. His mind is of a cast too martial to be easily moved ; but notwithstanding his habitual inflexibility, I cannot help thinking that when he heard his...
Seite 158 - ... God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the Publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Seite 72 - without any design except to amuse myself ; and got the languages by hunting after the stories in the several poets I read, rather than read the books to get the languages. I followed everywhere as my fancy led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the fields and woods, just as they fell in his way. These five or six years I looked upon as the happiest in my life.
Seite 220 - Yet I do not give up the country. I see her in a swoon, but she is not dead. Though in her tomb she lies helpless and motionless, still there is on her lips a spirit of life, and on her cheek a glow of beauty Thou art not conquered; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Seite 180 - We confess ourselves to be so far from recanting, or declining to vindicate the assembling of ourselves, to preach, pray, or worship the eternal, holy, just God, that we declare to all the world, that we do believe it to be our indispensable duty to meet incessantly upon so good an account; nor shall all the powers upon earth be able to divert us from reverencing and adoring our God, who made us.