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No great difference in the laws took place from the death of Charlemagne to the
reign of Charles , surnamed the Simple ( 898 ) ; here was a revolt : there was no
time for indolenceCharlemagne made laws , but they required the test of ...
No great difference in the laws took place from the death of Charlemagne to the
reign of Charles , surnamed the Simple ( 898 ) ; here was a revolt : there was no
time for indolenceCharlemagne made laws , but they required the test of ...
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Charles ' s son succeeded to Rodolph , his father ' s successful rival , but he in his
turn had to defeat that rival ' s son . Louis the Fifth , the last of the Carlovingian
race , died hated , and the nobility raised Hugh Capet to the throne . We have ...
Charles ' s son succeeded to Rodolph , his father ' s successful rival , but he in his
turn had to defeat that rival ' s son . Louis the Fifth , the last of the Carlovingian
race , died hated , and the nobility raised Hugh Capet to the throne . We have ...
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It is too unfortunately true , that when we bring forward the misfortunes of Louis
the Sixteenth of France , the French talk of those of Charles the First of England .
But England tardily , yet truly , taught the barbarity of its conduct , committed no ...
It is too unfortunately true , that when we bring forward the misfortunes of Louis
the Sixteenth of France , the French talk of those of Charles the First of England .
But England tardily , yet truly , taught the barbarity of its conduct , committed no ...
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It was not with the people collectively , but the people formed into a refractory
body under the Protector , that Charles contended , at first to assert his own
limited views of plebeian power , at last to satisfy his roused feelings of pique .
And when ...
It was not with the people collectively , but the people formed into a refractory
body under the Protector , that Charles contended , at first to assert his own
limited views of plebeian power , at last to satisfy his roused feelings of pique .
And when ...
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plotting during the first disturbances of the state , the case would have been the
same as that of Charles and the Protector . But the unhappy Louis seemed
imbibed with the Nero wish of beholding all France in the light of an enemy .
There was ...
plotting during the first disturbances of the state , the case would have been the
same as that of Charles and the Protector . But the unhappy Louis seemed
imbibed with the Nero wish of beholding all France in the light of an enemy .
There was ...
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Page 43 - The world is still deceived with ornament. In law what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it. and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Page 79 - ... life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity! While vacant hours of beauty roll Their magic o'er some yielded soul, Ah ! little do the happy guess, The sum of human wretchedness ; Or dream, amid the soft farewell That Time of them is taking, How frequent moans the funeral knell, What noble hearts are breaking, While myriads to their tombs descend, Without a mourner, creed, or friend!
Page 79 - A moment is a mighty thing, Beyond the soul's imagining; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot! How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!
Page 61 - Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds ?Oh ! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind : When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God...
Page 80 - How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven...
Page 61 - The calm of thought, the melody of mind ! When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God ! HAPPINESS OF HUMBLE LIFE.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Political Fame |
| Author | Rose Ellen Temple |
| Publisher | William Pickering, 1847 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 99 pages |
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