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... Louis XIV . upon Spain . These designs induced the French monarch to send James II . to Dublin , for he hoped that the war in Ireland would last ten years . When William was thus employed Louis was left free to pursue his schemes of ...
... Louis XIV . upon Spain . These designs induced the French monarch to send James II . to Dublin , for he hoped that the war in Ireland would last ten years . When William was thus employed Louis was left free to pursue his schemes of ...
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... Louis XIV . reacted on it , you have done a service not only to Irish but to European history ; and , in my opinion , even if you had not written so full a story of the revolutionary movement and its settlement , based on an extensive ...
... Louis XIV . reacted on it , you have done a service not only to Irish but to European history ; and , in my opinion , even if you had not written so full a story of the revolutionary movement and its settlement , based on an extensive ...
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... Louis XIV . and William of Orange . His state was but a pawn on the international chess - board , and all depended on how the player might be forced to use it . What is true of Brandenburg when the reins of power were slipping from the ...
... Louis XIV . and William of Orange . His state was but a pawn on the international chess - board , and all depended on how the player might be forced to use it . What is true of Brandenburg when the reins of power were slipping from the ...
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... Louis for his third attempt turned to Brandenburg , and tempted the Great Elector by the potent bribe of Pomerania . He too pro- mised to use all his power to secure the election of Louis if the death of the Emperor happened before the ...
... Louis for his third attempt turned to Brandenburg , and tempted the Great Elector by the potent bribe of Pomerania . He too pro- mised to use all his power to secure the election of Louis if the death of the Emperor happened before the ...
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... Louis were always turning , for at any hour a messenger might arrive with a despatch announcing that all was over . question of succession formed " the pivot on which turned almost all the policy of Louis XIV .; it occupied the ...
... Louis were always turning , for at any hour a messenger might arrive with a despatch announcing that all was over . question of succession formed " the pivot on which turned almost all the policy of Louis XIV .; it occupied the ...
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Page 247 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 247 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page 236 - The Roman catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland, or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles II...
Page 201 - And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom ; With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
Page 393 - The settlement of this manufacture will contribute much to people the country, and will be found much more advantageous to this kingdom, than the woollen, manufacture, which being the settled staple trade of England, from whence all foreign markets are supplied, can never be encouraged here...
Page 236 - Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles the Second : and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 181 - ... hundred of them without arms, who look like the poorest humblest slaves in the world, and you may search till you are weary before you find one gun ; but yet when they have a mind to do mischief they can all be 43 Story, p. 1 6; London Gazette, 2 Oct. 1690. 44 Story, Continuation, p. 49. ready in an hour's warning...
Page 280 - God for mercy, constrained them to let them go. They beat them with staves, and dragged them all bruised to the popish churches, where their enforced presence is reputed for an abjuration.
Page 31 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, do resolve that William and Mary, Prince and Princess of Orange, be, and be declared King and Queen of England.
Page 342 - I heard many very eloquent speeches, but I cannot say they struck me like the exertion of the abilities of Irishmen in the English House of Commons, owing perhaps to the reflection both on the speaker and auditor, that the Attorney-General of England, with a dash of his pen, can reverse, alter, or entirely do away the matured result of all the eloquence, and all the abilities of this whole assembly.