A Summer at Baden-Baden, Tập 70

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J. Mitchell, 1853 - 299 trang
 

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Trang 31 - Dame street, dates from 1659. The Sisterhood, at this third and last of the conventual establishments of Montreal, devote themselves to the education of young persons of their own sex. The stranger desirous of visiting either of the nunneries should apply to the Lady Superior for admission, which is seldom refused. The Protestant churches worthy of notice are St. Andrew's Church...
Trang 118 - ... their numbers, probably influenced by the French court, which desired the return of the Popes to Avignon, disputed the validity of the election of Urban VI, as having been forced on the cardinals by the menacing attitude of the Roman people. They assembled at Fondi, in the kingdom of Naples, and chose as Pope Cardinal Robert of Geneva, who assumed the name of Clement VII. The Emperor Charles had, during the last months of his life, warmly defended the validity of the election of Pope Urban,1...
Trang 275 - Aug. 12, in presence of the King and Queen of Prussia, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, with a numerous suite. At five o'clock a grand concert was given. The last day of the festival, there was a banquet at the " Stern," at which the crowd was immense.
Trang 145 - ... celebrated Druze prince, Fakr-ed-Din, who by the treachery of the Turks was taken prisoner in Beirut, brought to Constantinople, and beheaded in 1631. As the promontory allows of no passage between it and the sea, an artificial road, two yards in breadth, has with infinite labor been cut along the rocks at a height of eighty feet above the level of the water. The clefts of the precipice have in several places been filled up by masonry of great strength, forming a parapet for the security of the...
Trang 181 - ... was alone. At the appointed hour Gaetan arrived at the rendezvous, leaped lightly over the wall of the garden, and finding the door shut, entered the house through one of the low windows. Then mounting the stairs, filled with pleasing emotions, he directed his steps towards the apartment of Helen. There, instead of the daughter, he found the father, armed with a brace of pistola.
Trang 118 - Got, having been raised to the pontifical throne under the name of Clement V., quitted Rome in the third year of his reign, and transferred the Holy See to Avignon.

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