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"Accepique antequam discederem aureos coronatos Gallicos 500 et M.C.C. in reditu." De Vita Propria, ch. iv. p. 16. "Difficillimis causis victus venire non potui." The Archbishop's letter is given in Opera, tom. i. p. 137. Geniturarum Exempla, p. 469. He mentions this personage in De Varietate, p. 672: "Johannes Manienus medicus, vir egregius et mathematicaram studiosus."
See ante, iii. 248. See ante, iv. 295, where Boswell asked Johnson 'if he would not have done more good if he had been more gentle. JOHNSON. 'No, Sir; I have done more good as I am. Obscenity and impiety have always been repressed in my company. 'Mr.
The giving of a rich wardship was a usual method of rewarding a courtier or favorite. The inventions were endless which arbitrary power might employ for the extorting of money, while the people imagined that their property was secured by the crown's being debarred from imposing taxes. * Strype's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 137. Camden, p. 388. * Annals, vol. iv. p. 234 et seq.
"III. And the people were silent, looking at their faces, which appeared as the faces of angels. "IV. But Gervais, taking the hand of Protais, cried, looking to heaven, and filled with the Holy Ghost: "V. Oh, my brother! I see the Son of man smiling upon us; let me die first. "VI. For if I see thy blood, I fear I shall shed tears unworthy of the Lord our God.
In 1598, another grant was made to the same person by Henry IV, for the conquest of Canada, Hochelaga, Newfoundland, Labrador, the country of the river St. Lawrence, Norumbega, and other countries adjacent. This is the first document emanating from the crown, containing any mention of any part of the continent north of latitude 33 degrees and south of Cape Breton.
This declaration placed Murat in formal opposition to the Spanish people, who, through their hatred of Godoy, embraced the cause of the heir of the throne; in whose favour Charles IV. had abdicated. It has been remarked that Napoleon stood in a perplexing situation in this conflict between the King and his son. This is not correct.
Compare his style with Bacon's, Swift's, Addison's, and Gibbon's. Goldsmith. What change did She Stoops to Conquer bring to the stage? What qualities keep the play alive? Johnson. Representative selections are given in Craik, IV., 141-185. Let the student who has the time read Johnson's Dryden entire. Compare the style of Johnson with that of Gibbon and Burke.
In the autumn of 1878, after seventeen years of absence from Italy, Browning was recaptured by its charm, and henceforward to the close of his life Venice and the Venetian district became his accustomed place of summer refreshment and repose. For a time, with his sister as his companion, he paused at a hotel near the summit of the Splügen, enjoyed the mountain air, walked vigorously, and wrote, with great rapidity, says Mrs Orr, his poem of Russia, Iv
The palace of the sultan was the scene of incessant assassinations. Nothing ever prevented them from assailing their neighbors but incessant quarrels among themselves. The life of the Turkish empire was composed of bloody insurrections at home, and still more bloody wars abroad. Mahomet IV. was now sultan. He was but twenty years of age.
Hitherto invariable success had attended the arms of the Emperor and the League, and Christian IV., defeated in Germany, had sought refuge in his own islands; but the Baltic checked the further progress of the conquerors. The want of ships not only stopped the pursuit of the king, but endangered their previous acquisitions.
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