The History of Spain: From the Establishment of the Colony of Gades by the Phœnicians, to the Death of Ferdinand, Surnamed the Sage, Volume 3

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C. and G. Kearsley, 1793
 

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Pagina 275 - ... and to redrefs grievances which originated in the corruption of a court. Such qualities were not -the growth of the reign of Philip the Fifth. . The death of the Marquis of Bedmar, who had filled with ability the important...
Pagina 201 - ... revenue for doing his duty, and while he was doing it ; I defire you would give me your opinion, how he ought to be punifhed for this offence ?" The duke, after a little confideration, made anfwer, that the offence was of a very high nature ; that the young man, let...
Pagina 279 - Grimaldi, and wa? by that nobleman publicly read in the Escurial. It stated that, desirous of rest after a turbulent reign of twenty-three years, and anxious to employ the remainder of his life in preparing for a spiritual crown, Philip resigned T his hi...
Pagina 329 - Here they roved among the plantations, till they were quite in exftacy with the fweets. Philip V. fpent many of the laft years of his life at this place, filling up his time in drawing with the fmoke of a candle on deal boards, or angling for tench, in a little refervoir, by tou-h light.
Pagina 219 - ... important consequences. The emperor was relieved from his fears, the Hungarian malcontents were overawed, and the conquests and dominions of the elector of Bavaria fell at once into the hands of Leopold, who revenged severely on the subjects of that prince, the excesses which had been committed on his own.
Pagina 33 - India; and the neceffity of felling them, made them bear a low price in Europe. They were on the point of being ruined by their own efforts, and by the want of power in each of them to refift a formidable enemy, fully bent upon their deftruction, when the government, which is fometimes wifer than individuals, opportunely...
Pagina 213 - Six ships of war were taken, seven sunk, and nine burnt. Of thirteen galleons, nine fell into the hands of the conquerors, and four were destroyed ; and although the greater part of the treasure had been landed, and carried to Lagos, the booty was...
Pagina 278 - Confeflbr: the latter had cherifhed, from the different conduft of the Duke of Orleans, an idea that he would ftrongly difapprove the abdication of the King of Spain. He had, therefore, laboured to inftil into the mind of his royal penitent, that a defertion of his regal duty was a fucred offence.
Pagina 296 - Justus he buried every ambitious thought, and he even restrained his curiosity from enquiring respecting the politicals!-. tuation of Europe. But the age of Philip was that when the mind and body...

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