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... Mazarin- the second , from the death of Mazarin to that of Colbert - and the third , from the death of Colbert to that of Louis himself . The King's Minority , and the Government of Mazarin . While yet Louis XIII . was living , Anne of ...
... Mazarin- the second , from the death of Mazarin to that of Colbert - and the third , from the death of Colbert to that of Louis himself . The King's Minority , and the Government of Mazarin . While yet Louis XIII . was living , Anne of ...
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... Mazarin at the head of affairs . The announcement of the return of Mazarin to power , was received with deep mortification by the returned exiles , who had imagined that they possessed the confidence of the queen ; and it became the ...
... Mazarin at the head of affairs . The announcement of the return of Mazarin to power , was received with deep mortification by the returned exiles , who had imagined that they possessed the confidence of the queen ; and it became the ...
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... Mazarin , the old partisans of Richelieu , the nobles , the prince of Condé , and his gallant son , the duke of Enghein , and the duke of Beaufort . But the contest was not of long continuance . The regent banished several of them , and ...
... Mazarin , the old partisans of Richelieu , the nobles , the prince of Condé , and his gallant son , the duke of Enghein , and the duke of Beaufort . But the contest was not of long continuance . The regent banished several of them , and ...
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... Mazarin as a triumph over insubordination , and the demoniac feelings of revolt , the christian moralist must cen- sure it as an act of despotism over the human mind . He knew the enervating effects of pleasure -that unfit a people not ...
... Mazarin as a triumph over insubordination , and the demoniac feelings of revolt , the christian moralist must cen- sure it as an act of despotism over the human mind . He knew the enervating effects of pleasure -that unfit a people not ...
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... Mazarin's purpose , and he demanded more money , which the parliament refused . Under these cir- cumstances D'Emery , a subaltern of Mazarin , and like him an Italian , rummaged in the book of ordinances to find some old law , long ...
... Mazarin's purpose , and he demanded more money , which the parliament refused . Under these cir- cumstances D'Emery , a subaltern of Mazarin , and like him an Italian , rummaged in the book of ordinances to find some old law , long ...
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Page 68 - AND after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: for true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Page 40 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 430 - Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
Page 40 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 40 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Page 159 - There, through the prison of unbounded wilds, Barr'd by the hand of Nature from escape, Wide roams the Russian exile. Nought around Strikes his sad eye but deserts lost in snow...
Page 5 - Topt with all titles, spreading all our reaches, As if each private arm would sphere the earth, We must to Virtue for her guide resort, Or we shall shipwreck in our safest port.
Page 100 - In tempests ; quits his grasp upon the winds, And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery boil upon the skin, And putrefy the breath of blooming health. He calls for Famine, and the meagre fiend Blows mildew from between his shrivell'd lips, And taints the golden ear. He springs his mines, And desolates a nation at a blast.
Page 432 - HERE is the spring where waters flow, To quench our heat of sin : Here is the tree where truth doth grow, To lead our lives therein : Here is the Judge that stints the strife, When men's devices fail : Here is the Bread that feeds the life, That death cannot assail.
Page 463 - Egyptian Thebes ; Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves ; Palmyra, central in the desert, fell ; And the arts died by which they had been raised.