The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V: With a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century |
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... liberty , supplied the want of conduct as well as of union . During those long and fierce struggles for dominion or independence , the countries of Europe were successively laid waste , a great part of their inhabitants perished in the ...
... liberty , supplied the want of conduct as well as of union . During those long and fierce struggles for dominion or independence , the countries of Europe were successively laid waste , a great part of their inhabitants perished in the ...
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... liberty and independence , that , before the conclusion of the last Crusade , all the considerable cities in that country had either purchased or had extorted large immunities from the emperors [ 15 ] . This innovation was not long ...
... liberty and independence , that , before the conclusion of the last Crusade , all the considerable cities in that country had either purchased or had extorted large immunities from the emperors [ 15 ] . This innovation was not long ...
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... liberty . Though the institution of communities was as repugnant to their maxims of policy , as it was adverse to their power , they disregarded remote consequences , in order to obtain present relief . In less than two centuries ...
... liberty . Though the institution of communities was as repugnant to their maxims of policy , as it was adverse to their power , they disregarded remote consequences , in order to obtain present relief . In less than two centuries ...
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... liberty and political power . It was a fundamental principle in the feudal system of policy , that no free- man could be subjected to new laws or taxes unless by his own consent . In consequence of this , the vassals of every baron were ...
... liberty and political power . It was a fundamental principle in the feudal system of policy , that no free- man could be subjected to new laws or taxes unless by his own consent . In consequence of this , the vassals of every baron were ...
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... liberty : it secured to the great body of the people , who had forinerly no representatives , active and powerful guar- dians of their rights and privileges : it established an intermediate power between the king and the nobles , to ...
... liberty : it secured to the great body of the people , who had forinerly no representatives , active and powerful guar- dians of their rights and privileges : it established an intermediate power between the king and the nobles , to ...
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Page 126 - ... then from all thy sins, transgressions and excesses, how enormous soever they may be, even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the Holy See; and as far as the...
Page 456 - ... many and great affairs, and amidst the attention which he had been obliged to give to them, he had either neglected or injured any of his subjects, he now implored their forgiveness ; that, for his part, he should ever retain a grateful sense of their fidelity and attachment, and would carry the remembrance of it along with him to the place of his retreat, as his sweetest consolation, as well as the best reward for all his services, and in his last prayers to Almighty God would pour forth his...
Page 455 - The president of the council of Flanders, by his command, explained in a few words his intention in calling this extraordinary meeting of the states. He then read the instrument of resignation, by which Charles surrendered to his son Philip all his territories, jurisdiction, and authority in the Low Countries, absolving his subjects there from their oath of allegiance...
Page 464 - It consisted only of six rooms, four of them in the form of friars' cells, with naked walls; the other two, each twenty feet square, were hung with brown cloth, and furnished in the most simple manner. They were all on a level with the ground ; with a door on one side into...
Page 481 - He was particularly curious with regard to the construction of clocks and watches ; and having found, after repeated trials, that he could not bring any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise...
Page 482 - He himself followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin with much solemnity. The service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which were offered up for the rest of his soul, mingling his tears with those which his attendants shed, as if they had been celebrating a real funeral.
Page 41 - Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations. It softens and polishes the manners of men. It unites them by one of the strongest of all ties, the desire of supplying their mutual wants.
Page 482 - ... his tears with those which his attendants shed, as if they had been celebrating a real funeral. The ceremony closed with sprinkling holy water on the coffin in the usual form, and all the assistants retiring, the doors of the chapel were shut. Then Charles rose out of the coffin, and withdrew to his apartment, full of those awful sentiments which such a singular solemnity was calculated to inspire.
Page 125 - The right of promulgating these indulgences in Germany, together with a share in the profits arising from the sale of them, was granted to Albert, elector of Mentz and archbishop of Magdeburg, who, as his chief agent for retailing them in Saxony, employed Tetzel, a Dominican friar of licentious morals, but of an active spirit, and remarkable for his noisy and popular eloquence.
Page 225 - He desired the French herald to acquaint his sovereign, that he would henceforth consider him not only as a base violator of public faith, but as a stranger to the honor and integrity becoming a gentleman.