The History of Modern Europe: with an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: And a View of the Progress of Society from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763; in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son, Količina 1

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He summons a diet at Augsburg to compose the controversies in
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the death of their king Godfrey
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Lothaire king of Lorrain divorces his wife ibid
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They are defeated by the AngloSaxons
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He frames a body of laws
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The Emperor Charles the Fat is elected king of France
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Defeats the Hungarians in a great battle
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LETTER XVI
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ibid
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His successor Athelstan creates Sithric a Dane king of Northumberland
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Sweyn king of Denmark takes vengeance on the English for
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Roberts rejects the imperial dignity
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His son Harold Harefoot succeeds him on the throne of England
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ibid
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Nicephorus is put to death by the Bulgarians
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These disorders attain their height before the end of the tenth century
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The favourite and his father are banished
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The enraged prince sends an ambassador to Rome with a formal depriva
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Makes his escape but dies before he can effect his restoration
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His son Robert rebels against him in Normandy
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William quarrels with the primate Anslem ibid
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Rigour of the AngloNorman government ibid
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Muster a prodigious army on the banks of the Bosphorus
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He associates his son Louis in the government ibid
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LETTER XXVIII
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Acts with spirit in other quarters
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Richard reduces Cyprus
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Johns foreign dominions are subdued by Philip
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LETTER XXXII
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They are obliged to conclude a dishonourable peace ibid
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The barons offer the English crown to prince Louis of France ibid
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A civil war ibid
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He makes a vow to engage in a new crusade
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Memorable siege of Toledo ibid
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State of cities ibid
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He undertakes an expedition against Llewellyn prince of Wales
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He confirms the Great Charter with an additional clause
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LETTER XXXVIII
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Albert is murdered by his nephew when ready to march against the Swiss
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Fails in the enterprise and dies at Perpignan
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Mortimer is seized by order of young Edward and perishes by the hands
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The English gain an important advantage over the French by
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Edward the Black Prince invades France
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ibid
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John Huniades obliges those infidels to raise the siege of Belgrade
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Execution of Somerset 622
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His son Edward assumes the title of king
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His defeat and death
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The subsequent part of his reign is a continued scene of tyranny
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Character of Louis IX 278
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Abject superstition of the Greeks
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But afterward enter into a league with those barbarous invaders
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Henry turns his eyes towards the affairs of the continent ibid
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Marriage of the kings son Arthur
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Louis makes an unsuccessful attempt to recover the kingdom of Naples
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Death of Louis
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His unhappy fate
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LETTER LVIII
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VOL I
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Origin of the heroic romance
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Reign of his son Waldemar II 390
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Character of the Orlando of Ariosto ibid
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Voyage of Alvarez de Cabral
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He returns to Spain where he is treated with great respect
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The Mexicans revolt in his absence
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Charles visits England
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The English invade France without effect
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The French again invade Italy and lose another army ibid
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War is renewed between him and Francis ibid
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He assists at a conference of Protestant and Popish divines
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The discovery of America has increased the number of the civilized part
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Fortunate situation of Henry VIII at his accession ibid
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Dissolution of the smaller monasteries
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Establishment of seven Saxon kingdoms
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Marries Catharine Parr
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The new pontiff Julius III orders the general council to reassemble
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The Protestants assemble a great army
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Union of those realms
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ibid
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He demands in vain the liberty of the landgrave
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Procures for himself the estate of the Northumberland family and
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He persuades the king to disinherit his sisters
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It is speedily suppressed ibid
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This princess reestablishes the Protestant religion in England
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Recess of Augsburg
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The duke of Guise takes Thionville
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Stran 165 - I have loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile...
Stran 196 - It is the will of God ! It is the will of God...
Stran 580 - I at any time so far forget myself in my exaltation, or received queenship, but that I always looked for such an alteration as...
Stran 580 - But let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault where not so much as a thought thereof preceded.
Stran 641 - Preserve an inviolable regard for religion ; maintain the Catholic faith in its purity ; let the laws of your country be sacred in your eyes ; encroach not on the rights and privileges of your people ; and if the time...
Stran 558 - ... declared that if one of his hands were infected with heresy, he would cut it off with the other, and would not spare even his own children, if found guilty of that crime.
Stran 632 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Stran 640 - ... that, either in a pacific or hostile manner, he had visited Germany nine times, Spain six times, France four times, Italy seven times, the Low...
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Stran 528 - Vincent Valverde, chaplain to the expedition, advanced with a crucifix in one hand, and a breviary in the other, and in a long discourse...

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