An Universal History: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Volume 26

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C. Bathurst, 1761
 

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Página 349 - And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu ? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many ? 23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
Página 188 - ... during the pontificate of Martin V c. This proceeding of the king was oppofed by a great many prelates of his kingdom, and the univerfity of Paris appealed both from the king and the pope to a future council d.
Página 305 - French king to deliver him up as his fubject, and fet a price of 50,000 crowns upon his head ; which obliged the pope to recall him to Rome, and to appoint him a guard of foldiers for his protection m. Paul about. the fame time appointed four cardinals, and three other learned men, to draw up a form of reformation of the church, with regard to manners and difdpline (K) 5 and; as the duke of Mantua made feveral
Página 436 - Cajlro from entering the ecciefiaftical ftate : they likewife allowed the intereft to run in arrear for two or three years; at the end of which time they made a demand of the whole, which the duke was not able to fatisfy...
Página 376 - I was then looking for the keys of paradise, which obliged me to stoop a little ; but now I have found them, it is time to look upwards, as I am arrived at the summit of all human glory, and can climb no higher in this world.
Página 376 - While they were crowding to the pott- towards him in the conclave, te congratulate him, he fat tificate. coughing and weeping, as if fome great misfortune had befallen him ; but he no fooner perceived, upon the fcrutiny, that there was a fufficient number of votes to fecure his election, than he threw his...
Página 23 - Francis was the angel of the Revelations said to have the mark of the living God, and that his rule was the true gospel ; that the perfect state of the church began with St. Francis ; and that Christ and his apostles had no property, either in common or particular, but only the usufruct of what they enjoy.
Página 294 - Urbino, tho' at the head of a numerous army, delayed advancing to the relief of Rcme, the pope was obliged to capitulate with the prince of Orange, who, upon the death of Bourbon, fucceeded to the chief command. It was agreed that the pope fhould immediately pay 100,000 ducats, and 300,000 more within two months ; that he fhould put.
Página 378 - This order occafioned fuch a general alarm, that many paid their debts the fame day it was publifhed, and begged of their merchants to give them fuch receipts as though they had been paid long before. At the fame time he deprived the cardinals and nobles of thofe privileges and immunities, by which they...
Página 447 - ... new laws, abrogated thofe of former popes, and fat in council with Innocent, with bundles of memorials in her hands. It was generally faid that they lived together in a criminal correfpondence, and that fhe had charmed him by fome fecret incantation. In the...

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