The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History, 1. ciltHarper & Brothers, 1858 |
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affairs afterwards already Alva ancient Antwerp Archives et Correspondance Armenteros army assembly Badovaro Batavian Berghen Berlaymont Bishop Bishop of Arras Brabant Brederode Brussels burghers Burgundy Cardinal Catholic cause century character Charles Church Correspondance de Philippe council Count crown death Duchess Duke ecclesiastical edicts Egmont Elector Emperor envoy epoch estates favor Flanders Flemish France French Frisian Gachard German Ghent Granvelle Granvelle's Groen hand heresy heretics Holland honor Hoofd Hopper Horn Ibid imperial inquisition inquisitors King land letter liberty Majesty Margaret of Parma marriage matters Meteren monarch Montigny Netherlands never nobles occasion opinion Papiers d'Etat personage persons Philip Philippe II Pontus Payen Pope prelate Prince of Orange Prinst provinces received Reformation Regent religion religious royal Saint Saint Quentin secret seigniors soon sovereign Spain Spanish stadholder Strada Thou thousand tion Titelmann troops ubi sup Viglius whole William of Orange wrote
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Sayfa 96 - The foot of the town was washed by the little river Senne, while the irregular but picturesque streets rose up the steep sides of the hill like the semicircles and stairways of an amphitheatre. Nearly in the heart of the place rose the audacious and exquisitely embroidered tower of the town-house, three hundred and sixty-six feet in height, a miracle of needlework in stone, rivalling in its intricate carving the cobweb tracery of that lace which has for centuries been synonymous with the city, and...
Sayfa 102 - Hungary, were left conspicuous in the centre of the scene. As the whole object of the ceremony was to present an impressive exhibition, it is worth our while to examine minutely the appearance of the two principal characters. Charles the Fifth was then fifty-five years and eight months old; but he was already decrepit with premature old age. He was of about the middle height, and had been athletic and well-proportioned.
Sayfa 102 - These personal advantages were now departed. Crippled in hands, knees, and legs, he supported himself with difficulty upon a crutch, with the aid of an attendant's shoulder. In face he had always been extremely ugly, and time had certainly not improved his physiognomy. His hair, once of a light color, was now white with age, close-clipped and bristling ; his beard was gray, coarse, and shaggy. His forehead was spacious and commanding ; the eye was dark-blue, with an expression both majestic and benignant...
Sayfa 102 - Broad in the shoulders, deep in the chest, thin in the flank, very muscular in the arms and legs, he had been able to match himself with all competitors in the tourney and the ring, and to vanquish the bull with his own hand in the favorite national amusement of Spain. He had been able in the field to do the duty of captain and soldier, to endure fatigue and exposure, and every privation except fasting. These personal advantages were now departed. Crippled in hands, knees, and legs, he supported...
Sayfa 104 - Burgundian deformity was likewise reproduced : he had the same heavy, hanging lip, with a vast mouth, and monstrously protruding lower jaw. His complexion was fair, his hair light and thin, his beard yellow, short, and pointed. He had the aspect of a Fleming, but the loftiness of a Spaniard. His demeanor in public was still, silent, almost sepulchral. He looked habitually on the ground when he conversed, was chary of speech, embarrassed and even suffering in manner.
Sayfa 104 - Such was the personal appearance of the man who was about to receive into his single hand the destinies of half the world; whose single will was, for the future, to shape the fortunes of every individual then present, of many millions more in Europe, America, and at the ends of the earth, and of countless millions yet unborn.
Sayfa 104 - In face, he was the living image of his father, having the same broad forehead and blue eye, with the same aquiline, but better proportioned, nose. In the lower part of the countenance, the remarkable Burgundian deformity was likewise reproduced. He had the same heavy. hanging lip, with a vast mouth, and monstrously protruding lower jaw.
Sayfa 270 - should the prince, by force or otherwise, violate any of these privileges, the inhabitants of Brabant, after regular protest entered, are discharged of their oaths of allegiance, and as free, independent and unbound people, may conduct themselves exactly as seems to them best.
Sayfa 95 - ... had long before resolved upon, and which he was that day to execute. The Emperor, like many potentates before and since, was fond of great political spectacles. He knew their influence upon the masses of mankind. Although plain, even to shabbiness, in his own costume, and usually attired in black, no one ever understood better than he how to arrange such exhibitions in a striking and artistic style. We have seen the theatrical and imposing manner in which he quelled the insurrection at Ghent,...
Sayfa 112 - Of five millions of gold annually, which he derived from all his realms, two millions came from these industrious and opulent provinces, while but a half million came from Spain and another half from the Indies.