History of France, by the author of 'English history'.Christian Knowledge Society, 1867 |
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Popular passages
Page 138 - In another bull, he declared, that he would not endure the least contempt of himself, or of God, whose place he held on earth, but would punish every disobedience without delay, and without respect of persons; and would convince the whole world, that he was determined to act like a sovereign.* The " lionhearted" Richard obeyed his decrees, and gave up his opposition, in the cause which he had contested.
Page 412 - If the admiral and all those murdered on that bloody Bartholomew day were guilty, why were they not apprehended, imprisoned, interrogated, and judged, but so much made of as might be, within two hours of the...
Page 412 - French make, now seals and words of princes being traps to catch innocents and bring them to the butchery ? If the admiral and all those murdered on that bloody Bartholomew day were guilty, why were they not apprehended, imprisoned, interrogated, and judged, but so much...
Page 172 - We counsel you, with the apostle Paul, to employ guile with regard to this count, for in this case it ought to be called prudence. We must attack, separately, those who are separated from unity, leave for a time the count of Toulouse, employing towards him a wise dissimulation, that the other heretics may be the more easily defeated, and that afterwards we may crush him when he shall be left alone.
Page 63 - Whether the divine law did not permit a valiant and warlike people to dethrone a pusillanimous and indolent monarch, who was incapable of discharging any of the functions of royalty, and to substitute in his place one more worthy to rule, and who had already rendered most important services to the state?
Page 137 - France, to whom he recommends an humble and obliging carriage, from this consideration, that both his kingdom and his soul were under the dominion of St. Peter (ie) his vicar the Roman pontiff), who had the power to bind and to loose him, both in heaven and upon earth [a].
Page 14 - He shall judge the poor of the people, He shall save the children of the needy, and break in pieces the oppressor.
Page 120 - ... betook themselves in hasty flight to the shelter of rocks and caverns *, as if the temples of Nature were destined to preservation amidst the wreck of man and his works. The year of terror arrived, and passed away without any extraordinary convulsion; and at present it is chiefly remarkable as having terminated the most shameful century in the annals of Christianity.
Page 234 - the courage of a man, and the heart of a lion," showing to the people of Rennes her infant boy, and saying, "See here my little son, who shall be the restorer of his father." They have painted her, after the old chronicler, besieged in Hennebon, and at the last extremity looking down along the sea, out of a window in the...
Page 364 - Cambray, and accordingly gave notice of it to his friends in the Netherlands. " I heard," says this prince, " from the mouth of King Henry, that the duke of Alva had agreed with the French ministers on the means of exterminating all who were suspected of Protestantism, in France, in the Netherlands, and throughout Christendom, by the universal establishment of an inquisition, worse and more cruel than that of Spain. I confess that I was moved to pity, by the thoughts of so many good men doomed to...