An Universal History: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Volume 22

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C. Bathurst, 1760 - Virginia
 

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Page 87 - Her monument is still extant, where her statue is adorned with the diadem and the royal robe. This, with the legitimation of her children, and the care he took of all who had been in her...
Page 262 - Portuguefe; all dignities in the church and in the orders of knighthood confined to the fame ; the commerce of Ethiopia, Africa, and the Indies referved alfo to them, and to be carried on only by their merchants and veffels : that...
Page 75 - The king, ftarting with rage, interrupted him, If not, what If not, refumed the nobleman, in a firm tone, they will look for another and a better king.
Page 362 - ... all that fort of men who are ready to go any where, or to do any thing to get a living. As thefe were quite a different race from thofe of the new colony before-mentioned, it...
Page 249 - Hold it faft, . let us die upon it:" upon which, charging the Moors, he was feized, refcued by Brito, who was himfelf taken with the ftandard, and carried to Fez. He affirmed, that after he was taken, he faw the king at a diftance unpurfued. Don Lewis de Lima afterwards met him making towards the river...
Page 26 - P'iegas propofed the great queftion, whether it was their pleafure the king fhould go to Leon, do homage, and pay tribute to that prince, or to any other ? Upon which every man drawing his fword,. cried with a loud voice, We are free, and our king is...
Page 262 - Portuguefe fhould be admitted to charges in the king and <]ueen of Spain's houfholds : that all duties of entry on the frontiers be taken away : that Philip fhould give three hundred thoufand ducats to redeem prisoners, repair cities, and relieve the miferies which the plague and other calamities had brought on the people. The clergy and nobility were for accepting thefe offers ; but the deputies of towns refufcd them, believing they would not be long kept b.
Page 182 - ... yet, through fear and diftruft, he did not arrive till he was dying, or as fome fay, till he was dead. He added a codicil, by which he declared his fon duke oiCoimbra, and gave him all the lands and eftates of Don Pedro, who had formerly enjoyed that title.
Page 409 - Cajlile he turned into a defart ; the city of Leon he took, and after putting the inhabitants to death, burnt it to the ground, He ufed no lefs cruelty in Catalonia, where he alfo...
Page 262 - ... refulting from forfeitures fhould not be united to the domain, but go to the relations of the laft...

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