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... nobles , who drew their swords and closed around him . This incident made a deep impression on the Emperor , whose education had imbued him with a Spanish dignity and stateliness . The sup- pression of Protestantism at Vienna was ...
... nobles , who drew their swords and closed around him . This incident made a deep impression on the Emperor , whose education had imbued him with a Spanish dignity and stateliness . The sup- pression of Protestantism at Vienna was ...
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... noble house at Eisleben which had befriended Luther . Agnes was of extra- ordinary beauty , but her family had fallen into poverty : Truchsess , a practised seducer , sought her acquaintance , and prevailed on her to live with him as ...
... noble house at Eisleben which had befriended Luther . Agnes was of extra- ordinary beauty , but her family had fallen into poverty : Truchsess , a practised seducer , sought her acquaintance , and prevailed on her to live with him as ...
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... nobles are denounced ; the Electors and Princes of the Empire , ecclesi- astical as well as secular , are alone authorized to keep buffoons , and at the same time forbidden to get drunk themselves or to intoxicate others . These ...
... nobles are denounced ; the Electors and Princes of the Empire , ecclesi- astical as well as secular , are alone authorized to keep buffoons , and at the same time forbidden to get drunk themselves or to intoxicate others . These ...
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... nobles of his party to Constantinople ; but it does not appear that these negotiations had any result . It may be remarked , however , that the Protes- tants were much more acceptable to the Turks than the Papists , as approaching more ...
... nobles of his party to Constantinople ; but it does not appear that these negotiations had any result . It may be remarked , however , that the Protes- tants were much more acceptable to the Turks than the Papists , as approaching more ...
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... noble , and one of the leaders of the liberal and Protestant party in that country . A counter - revolution now took place . The Austrian commissaries who had been sent to take possession of Transylvania were seized and imprisoned ...
... noble , and one of the leaders of the liberal and Protestant party in that country . A counter - revolution now took place . The Austrian commissaries who had been sent to take possession of Transylvania were seized and imprisoned ...
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Page 427 - King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne had thereby become vacant.