History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce--1609, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1861 - Netherlands |
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... Philip at his Writing - Table — His Plots with Parma against England— Parma's secret Letters to the King - Philip's Letters to Parma - Wonderful Duplicity of Philip - His sanguine Views as to England - He is reluctant to hear of the ...
... Philip at his Writing - Table — His Plots with Parma against England— Parma's secret Letters to the King - Philip's Letters to Parma - Wonderful Duplicity of Philip - His sanguine Views as to England - He is reluctant to hear of the ...
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... Philip foments the Civil War in France - League's Threats and Plots against Henry - Mucio arrives in Paris - He is received with Enthusiasm - The King flies , and Spain triumphs in Paris - States expostulate with the Queen - English ...
... Philip foments the Civil War in France - League's Threats and Plots against Henry - Mucio arrives in Paris - He is received with Enthusiasm - The King flies , and Spain triumphs in Paris - States expostulate with the Queen - English ...
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... Philip Sidney wounded - Results of the Encounter - Death of Sidney at Arnheim- Gallantry of Edward Stanley . FIVE great rivers hold the Netherland territory in their coils . Three are but slightly separated - the Yssel , Waal , and ...
... Philip Sidney wounded - Results of the Encounter - Death of Sidney at Arnheim- Gallantry of Edward Stanley . FIVE great rivers hold the Netherland territory in their coils . Three are but slightly separated - the Yssel , Waal , and ...
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... Philip , who was a worse paymaster than Elizabeth , had a sorry life of it , notwithstanding his nominal possession ... Philip II . 28 Feb. 1586 . ( Archivo de Simancas , MS . ) Compare Strada , II . 426 . * Parma to Philip II . ( MS ...
... Philip , who was a worse paymaster than Elizabeth , had a sorry life of it , notwithstanding his nominal possession ... Philip II . 28 Feb. 1586 . ( Archivo de Simancas , MS . ) Compare Strada , II . 426 . * Parma to Philip II . ( MS ...
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... Philip , during an additional quarter of a century , and had been received in that city with rapture . Several startling years of victory and rapine he had thus run through as a royalist partisan . He became the terror and the scourge ...
... Philip , during an additional quarter of a century , and had been received in that city with rapture . Several startling years of victory and rapine he had thus run through as a royalist partisan . He became the terror and the scourge ...
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Page 474 - Before Howard had time to act upon this ill-timed suggestion, — even had he been disposed to do so, — he received authentic intelligence that the great fleet was off the Lizard. Neither he nor Francis Drake were the men to lose time in such an emergency; and before that Friday night was spent, sixty of the best English ships had been warped out of Plymouth harbor.
Page 475 - Hawkins, — from infancy at home on blue water, — was manifest in the very first encounter. They obtained the weather-gage at once, and cannonaded the enemy at intervals with considerable effect; easily escaping at will out of range of the sluggish Armada, which was incapable of bearing sail in pursuit, although provided with an armament which could sink all its enemies at close quarters. " We had some small fight with them that Sunday afternoon,
Page 535 - do I render to Almighty God, by whose generous hand I am gifted with such power that I could easily, if I chose, place another fleet upon the seas. Nor is it of very great importance that a running stream 1 Strada, ii. ix. 564. a Ibid. should be sometimes intercepted, so long as the fountain from which it flows remains inexhaustible.
Page 492 - Farnese as though they had been toys of glass. They knew too that the famous engineer was at that moment in England. In a moment one of those horrible panics which spread with such contagious rapidity among large bodies of men, seized upon the Spaniards. There was a yell throughout the fleet —
Page 48 - For yonder comes Lord Willoughbey With courage fierce and fell, He will not give one inch of way For all the devils in hell.