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He was the first to give to the French Court that magnificence which afterwards made it the envy of all the Courts of Europe. In religion he pursued a double policy: while he severely persecuted the Protestants in France, he did all in his power to encourage the German Protestants and, in this way, to weaken the power of his old enemy, Charles V.

This spirited translation from the German ballad by Goethe has probably never been printed. The handwriting is about 1798, and the translation was well known to some of Sir Walter's early friends. Lent by Messrs. A. & Ch. Black.

During the centuries of pirate rule, and earlier, negroes were brought in as slaves; Mohammedan custom favored setting them free in a few years if they became Mohammedans. 40 23 invraisemblables: lit. 'unlike the truth, 'improbable', then 'strange, 'outlandish', of German unwahrscheinlich.

Upon the death of the German Emperor Maximilian in 1519, he became the rival candidate of Charles V. for the imperial crown. Upon his loss of the latter, he attempted an alliance with Henry VIII. of England against the Emperor.

Vit. S. Rudbert. German. Ses leçons toutefois n'avaient point fructifié dans l'esprit rétif des Avars; non seulement le paganisme persista généralement parmi eux, mais,

Vit. S. Emeramm., German. La Bavière était alors en proie

German. Arminius... canitur adhuc barbaras apud gentes. Id. Paul. Diac., Hist.

Le drame suivant est entièrement tiré de Kruitzner, conte de German, publié, il y a déj

Eginh., Annal., ad ann. 799. Poet. Carol. M. c. Chron. Ratisbon., ad. ann. 805. Chaganus alter... qui, baptismo suscepto in loco Fiskaha, Abraham nomen sortitus est. German. Sacr., t.

Besides she is not good, and with all the appearances of brutal frankness, she knows what is to be false when she needs it. As to her talent, she has it but not so much as she imagines herself; besides she is full of german vanity. Now l'éreintement est aussi complet que possible.