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* Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America", vol. V, p. 357. The Savannah and Altamaha rivers and the wide and deep lands between fell in that grant of Charles II's to the eight Lords Proprietors of Carolina Albemarle, Clarendon, and the rest. But this region remained as yet unpeopled save by copper-hued folk.
One of the reasons of Joseph II's failure to reform Belgian institutions was that his monarchical power rested mainly on the nobility, the clergy and the peasants, who were bound to resent the sacrifice of their privileges and traditions.
The impetuous Luis de Leon was no doubt extremely capable of showing that he resented Philip II's interference in church matters. On the other hand, Santa Maria cannot have written with any personal knowledge of the facts, as he belonged to a much later generation.
Pitt and her party all about the old house, showing them everything, including the room where the famous ball in "Pickwick Papers" was held. Leaving the Bull, they noted the Crown Inn, on the site of the one where Henry VIII went privately to take a look at Anne of Cleves, and the old White Hart, built in Richard II's reign, which once sheltered Samuel Pepys.
In the year of King Richard II's accession , according to a trustworthy calculation based upon the result of that year's poll-tax, the total number of the inhabitants of England seems to have been two millions and a half. A quarter of a century earlier in the days of Chaucer's boyhood their numbers had been perhaps twice as large.
When I stood in the midst of the little circle, which promised to be the supports of my declining age, I could not avoid repeating the famous story of Count Abensberg, who, in Henry II's progress through Germany, while other courtiers came with their treasures, brought his thirty-two children, and presented them to his sovereign as the most valuable offering he had to bestow.
'Oh, to think of King Charles II's beauties living there those lovely, languid ladies how charming they were! exclaimed Madame Frabelle. 'They wore very low dresses, said Bruce, who felt rather sleepy and stupid, and as if he didn't quite know what he was saying. Madame Frabelle modestly looked away from the pictures. 'How exquisite the garden is.
This estimate was printed in 1599, eight years after Luis de Leon's death and one year after Philip II's death. Making some allowance for the partiality of an admirer, Pacheco's description may stand. A dry contemporary chronicler, like Luis Cabrera de Córdoba, after paying tribute to Luis de Leon's intellectual gifts and heroic courage in adversity, speaks of his death as a national loss.
The contention waxed hot, and was virtually decided when the Armada shaped course to the northward after the fight off Gravelines. The expeditions against the Spanish Indies and, still more, those against Philip II's peninsular territory, had helped to define the limitations of sea-power.
He was born, for the second time, the day of Charles II's restoration, into a family which had lost a very considerable fortune in the service of that prince and his father, for which they received the reward very often conferred by princes on real merit, viz. 000.
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