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Moreover, the petitions and intercessions which came to the viceroy, as well as to the King of Spain, from the German princes, increased daily; nay, the Emperor, Maximilian II., himself caused the countess to be assured "that she had nothing to fear for the life of her spouse." These powerful applications might at last turn the king's heart in favor of the prisoners.
We are all brought into the light that we may impart light. 'Heaven doth with us as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues. II. And now turn to the second thought which I desire to draw from these words.
From Wycherley's 'Plain Dealer, it appears that in the time of Charles II. angry clients were accustomed to revile their lawyers as 'green bag-carriers. When the litigious Widow Blackacre upbraids the barrister who declines to argue for her, she exclaims "Impertinent again, and ignorant to me!
Ludwig II., that picturesque young King of Bavaria, in the name of the rest of the German states, laid their united allegiance at his feet, and begged him to accept the crown of a united Germany. Moved by his colossal misfortunes, and perhaps partly in displeasure at having a French republic once more at her door, England offered asylum to the deposed emperor.
II. IRON IN ART. Passing, then, from the offices of the metal in the operations of nature to its uses in the hands of man, you must remember, in the outset, that the type which has been thus given you, by the lifeless metal, of the action of body and soul together, has noble antitype in the operation of all human power.
Monsieur Matifat, superb at a review of the National Guard, where his protuberant paunch could be distinguished at fifty paces, and upon which glittered a gold chain and a bunch of trinkets, was under the yoke of this Catherine II. of commerce.
By the charter granted by King James II., the number of fellows was enlarged, but not to exceed eighty, and none but those who had taken the degree of doctors in the British or foreign universities were qualified to be admitted members of this college.
Then he was sent away to Pontefract Castle, and what happened to him there nobody knows, but he never came out of it alive. The English people had often chosen their king out of the royal family in old times, but from John to Richard II., he had always been the son and heir of the last king.
There is also the portal of the Château-d'Anet built by Henri II for Diana of Poitiers, with many other objects extremely curious; amongst the rest a large stone basin from the Abbey of St.
I am Elbert Hubbard's son, and I am entirely familiar with the proposition that "Genius never reproduces." Heretofore, it has always been necessary to sign my name, "Elbert Hubbard II" but now there is an embarrassment in that signature, an assumption that I do not feel. There is no Second Elbert Hubbard.
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