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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... Governor - York and Stanley - Leicester's secret Instructions - Wilkes remonstrates with Stanley - Stanley's Insolence and Equivocation - Painful Rumours as to him and York - Duplicity of York - Stanley's Banquet at Deventer - He ...
... Governor - York and Stanley - Leicester's secret Instructions - Wilkes remonstrates with Stanley - Stanley's Insolence and Equivocation - Painful Rumours as to him and York - Duplicity of York - Stanley's Banquet at Deventer - He ...
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... governor of Friesland . He had smothered his resentment for a time however , but had sworn within himself to desert at the most favourable opportunity . At last , after he had brilliantly saved the city of Breda from falling into the ...
... governor of Friesland . He had smothered his resentment for a time however , but had sworn within himself to desert at the most favourable opportunity . At last , after he had brilliantly saved the city of Breda from falling into the ...
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... governor - general came to Utrecht . Through the streets of this antique and most pic- turesque city flows the palsied current of the Rhine , and every barge and bridge were decorated with the flowers of spring . Upon this spot , where ...
... governor - general came to Utrecht . Through the streets of this antique and most pic- turesque city flows the palsied current of the Rhine , and every barge and bridge were decorated with the flowers of spring . Upon this spot , where ...
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... governor of the city , Baron Hemart , to negociate for a surrender . Alexander was , natu- rally , but too glad to grant easy terms , and upon the 7th of June the garrison left the town with colours displayed and drums beating , and the ...
... governor of the city , Baron Hemart , to negociate for a surrender . Alexander was , natu- rally , but too glad to grant easy terms , and upon the 7th of June the garrison left the town with colours displayed and drums beating , and the ...
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... governor was governed by his mistress , a lady of good family in the place , but of Spanish inclinations , and she , for some mys- terious reasons , had persuaded him thus voluntarily to capi- tulate.2 Parma lost no time , however , in ...
... governor was governed by his mistress , a lady of good family in the place , but of Spanish inclinations , and she , for some mys- terious reasons , had persuaded him thus voluntarily to capi- tulate.2 Parma lost no time , however , in ...
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Page 565 - The Greek Testament: with a critically revised Text; a Digest of Various Readings; Marginal References to verbal and Idiomatic Usage; Prolegomena; and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers, By HENRY ALFORD, DD, Dean of Canterbury. Vol. I., containing the Four Gospels.
Page 508 - Ireland," as the Devonshire skipper expressed himself, it must be confessed that the Spaniards presented a sorry sight. " Their invincible and dreadful navy," said Drake, " with all its great and terrible ostentation, did not in all their sailing about England so much as sink or take one ship, bark, pinnace, or cock-boat of ours, or even burn so much as one sheep-cote on this land.
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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.