The History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of SpainJames Eastburn & Company, George Long, printer, 1818 - 448 sivua |
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Sivu 56 - I would myself carry wood to burn my own son, were he such a wretch as thou." After which he beheld the horrid spectacle that followed, with a composure and tranquillity that betokened the most unfeeling heart.
Sivu 121 - ... filled with astonishment. It struck terror in a particular manner into the inhabitants of the Low Countries ; who saw how vain it was to expect mercy from a prince, who had so obstinately refused to exercise it towards his own son ; whose only crime, they believed, was his attachment to them, and his compassion for their calamities.* Similar calamities were permitted to be visited upon those who had embraced the Protestant faith in Spain.
Sivu 87 - His troops perceiving then that they mull either die or conquer, took, courage from defpair, and advanced boldly to the intrenchment, with ladders for fcaling it in one hand, and their fabres in the other.
Sivu 91 - While he was deliberating upon it, the grand-master improved to the best advantage the leisure that was afforded him. He employed all the inhabitants, men, women, and children, as well as the...
Sivu 440 - It is indeed impossible to suppose that he was insincere in his zeal for religion. But as his religion was of the most corrupt kind, it served to increase the natural depravity of his disposition ; and not only allowed, but even prompted him to commit the most odious and sbocking crimes.
Sivu 88 - After setting fire to a train which was fastened to this machine, it was thrown by the force of an engine upon a ravelin that was the principal defence of the fort.
Sivu 55 - It confirmed and perpetuated the reign of ignorance and superstition; inflamed the rage of religious bigotry, and by the cruel spectacles to which, in the execution of its decrees, it familiarized the people, it nourished in them that ferocious spirit, which in the Netherlands and America they manifested by deeds that have fixed an indelible reproach upon the Spanish name.
Sivu 56 - Valladolid, an auto-da-fe had been celebrated, in which a great number of Protestants had been committed to the flames. There were still in the prisons of the Inquisition more than thirty persons, against whom the same dreadful punishment had been denounced. Philip, eager to give public proof as early as possible of his abhorrence of these innovators, desired the inquisitors to fix a day for their execution ; and he resolved to witness it.
Sivu 224 - I have solemnly sworn,' he replied, ' that I will never surrender myself or my fellow-citizens to the cruel and perfidious Spaniard ; and I will sooner die than violate my oath. I have no food, else I would give it you. But if my death can be of use to you, take, tear me in pieces, and devour me ; I shall die with satisfaction, if I know that by my death I shall for one moment relieve you from your direful necessity.
Sivu 42 - This singular advantage, however, could not have enabled the Flemings to leave the other European nations so far behind them, if the form of their civil government had not been peculiarly favourable to their exertions. The greatest advantages which nature affords for improvement in the arts of life, may be rendered useless to the people who possess them, by an injudicious, or tyrannical and oppressive exercise of the civil power. And universal experience proves, how vain it is to expect that men...