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... marriage with a French princess , transferred the succession of the crown of France to the English monarchs . The resis- tance which , after Henry the Fifth's death , Charles , the Dauphin of France , opposed to the pretensions of the ...
... marriage with a French princess , transferred the succession of the crown of France to the English monarchs . The resis- tance which , after Henry the Fifth's death , Charles , the Dauphin of France , opposed to the pretensions of the ...
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... marriage , Elizabeth Gurney had sub- sided , or soared , by slow but continuous process , into " plain Quakerism . " First , dancing was abolished ; next , Rachel was informed that singing must be given up ; and pari passu with these ...
... marriage , Elizabeth Gurney had sub- sided , or soared , by slow but continuous process , into " plain Quakerism . " First , dancing was abolished ; next , Rachel was informed that singing must be given up ; and pari passu with these ...
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... married soon , and the union will not be a happy one : you will be a widow , and then queen of France : some happy years will be yours , but you will die in a hospital amidst civil commotion . " " Such , ladies , ” said the divorced ...
... married soon , and the union will not be a happy one : you will be a widow , and then queen of France : some happy years will be yours , but you will die in a hospital amidst civil commotion . " " Such , ladies , ” said the divorced ...
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... marriage was near at hand , and was probably known to be so by the fortune - teller . Vicomte Alexandre de Beauharnais , a captain in the French army , visited Martinique upon business connected with his brother the Marquis de ...
... marriage was near at hand , and was probably known to be so by the fortune - teller . Vicomte Alexandre de Beauharnais , a captain in the French army , visited Martinique upon business connected with his brother the Marquis de ...
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... marriage of her niece with the Vicomte he was thirty years old , just double the age of his bride - was duly ... married , I should not to - day have been troubling you with my griefs . " This letter the abandoned woman placed at ...
... marriage of her niece with the Vicomte he was thirty years old , just double the age of his bride - was duly ... married , I should not to - day have been troubling you with my griefs . " This letter the abandoned woman placed at ...
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Page 124 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me...
Page 123 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 123 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...
Page 124 - God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 123 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...
Page 267 - With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless realms receive his sway; Short sway! fair Austria spreads her mournful charms, The queen, the beauty, sets the world in arms...
Page 124 - and tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence...
Page 130 - Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. The fact against the queen's highness was unlawful, and the consenting thereunto by me : but touching the procurement and desire thereof by me or on my behalf, I do wash my hands thereof in innocency before God, and the face of yon, good Christian people, this day: " and therewith she wrung her hands, wherein she had her book.
Page 102 - Lauzun marries, next Sunday, at the Louvre, with the king's permission, Mademoiselle — Mademoiselle de — Mademoiselle — guess the name ; he marries Mademoiselle — the great Mademoiselle — Mademoiselle, the daughter of the late Monsieur — Mademoiselle, granddaughter of Henry IV.
Page 123 - And one example, whether love or fear doth work more in a child for virtue and learning, I will gladly report; which may be heard with some pleasure and followed with more profit.