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Trang 149 - Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve : Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? " But, in this case, the old prejudice got the better of the old joke.
Trang 112 - ... illshaped ; his shoulders somewhat round ; his hair of a light brown ; his forehead large, and his nose aquiline. His eyes, however, were sparkling and agreeable, and, when lighted up, gave a not unpleasant expression to his countenance. King William died at Kensington Palace, on the 8th of March, 1702, in the fifty-second year of his age, and the thirteenth of his reign over England. His body, having been previously embalmed and laid in state, was interred on the 12th of April in a vault beneath...
Trang 67 - Louis XIII., son of the great Henry, was so young at the time of his father's death, that his mother, Mary de Medicis, was appointed Regent. Mary was a weak, but cunning woman, and was much ruled by favorites. When one of these, an Italian lady, the wife of Concini, Marquis d'Ancre, was asked how she contrived so wholly to govern the Queen-mother, she replied, " By the influence which a strong mind has over a feeble one.
Trang 97 - ... followed. The Parliament assembled, and declared that the King, by breaking his oath to his subjects, as well as by his flight, had abdicated the throne, and that therefore it was vacant. Now it is one of the fundamental laws of our constitution, that, when the throne is vacant, the Parliament has the power of supplying the vacancy by electing a new monarch. After some debates, it was therefore determined that Mary, the eldest daughter of the late King, and her husband William, .should jointly...
Trang 55 - ... period they lived. By constantly doing so, you will learn in what reign to place them, and thus be able to judge what periods of time have been most enriched by the labors of the learned and the ingenious. CHAPTER LIV. REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL. 1640. I TOLD you, that Philip II. of Spain had seized the crown of Portugal ; but his was not the strongest claim — the Duke of Braganza's was stronger ; and the wife of his grandson, being of a very ambitious and daring temper, assisted by her friends,...
Trang 188 - ... to secure her own power and safety, she put the child into a strong fortress, where he remained imprisoned upward of twenty years, and was at last put to death by his guards, by order of Catherine II., the widow of Peter III. This Peter was son of Anne, daughter of Peter the Great, and successor to his aunt, the Empress Elizabeth. Ivan was a beautiful and artless youth. When his merciless keepers entered his lonely dungeon, he made a brave resistance, and fell mangled with many wounds, in the...
Trang 73 - Louis died in the seventy-eighth year of his age, 1st September, 1715. Of the many wise and virtuous men who shed a lustre on this reign, I must give you and myself the pleasure of naming some : — The admirable Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray, the author of Telemachus and other admired works, and the tutor to Louis's grandson, the Duke of Burgundy ; the charming dramatists, Racine, Corneille, Moliere ; the elegant preachers, Massillon and Bourdaloue ; the great statesman, Colbert ; the famous generals,...
Trang 115 - Ger many and King of Spain, grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella ? Charles was the first prince of the House of Austria that possessed the crown of Spain, and his descendants inherited it until 1700, when Charles II. of Spain died without issue. The brother of Charles V., Ferdinand, you may recollect, became Emperor of Germany ; and when Spain wanted a King, this branch of the House of Austria desired to give it me.
Trang 72 - Louis has been lozig extolled for its splendor. It seems to me to owe its chief distinction to the numerous learned and ingenious men who then enriched France. Louis, indeed, was fond of war, and pursued his inclination at a vast expense ; but, by so doing, did he purchase commensurate blessings for his subjects ? His people contributed large sums to forward the projects of their monarch ; did those projects ultimately benefit those who had thus paid for them ? You must ask yourselves these questions...