The Memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton: Containing the Histories of Louis XI and Charles VIII, Kings of France and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, Volume 1G. Bell, 1906 |
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... causes of the events in which they acted , - and in the vigorous dispersion of the mists with which igno- rance or passion obscures the true aspect of human affairs , Commines is emphatically a Frenchman . In the reverence with which ...
... causes of the events in which they acted , - and in the vigorous dispersion of the mists with which igno- rance or passion obscures the true aspect of human affairs , Commines is emphatically a Frenchman . In the reverence with which ...
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... cause of this delay . Opposition , which was only too well founded , as we shall presently see , had prevented Commines from entering upon the enjoyment of his royal master's liberalities at an earlier period . The king's title to the ...
... cause of this delay . Opposition , which was only too well founded , as we shall presently see , had prevented Commines from entering upon the enjoyment of his royal master's liberalities at an earlier period . The king's title to the ...
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... cause of his father - in - law's misfortunes ; and this alliance , as we shall presently see , occasioned the transfer of all the property of the house of Amboise to the family of La Tremoille . On ratifying the con- tract of this ...
... cause of his father - in - law's misfortunes ; and this alliance , as we shall presently see , occasioned the transfer of all the property of the house of Amboise to the family of La Tremoille . On ratifying the con- tract of this ...
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... caused an inventory to be taken immediately of the furniture and title - deeds , and seized in the king's name on the ... cause of painful and scandalous lawsuits . These honours and emoluments certainly recompensed Commines very amply ...
... caused an inventory to be taken immediately of the furniture and title - deeds , and seized in the king's name on the ... cause of painful and scandalous lawsuits . These honours and emoluments certainly recompensed Commines very amply ...
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... cause of the Flo- rentines ( or , to speak more correctly , of the Medici family ) , who were then menaced by a powerful league , headed by Pope Sixtus V. and the King of Naples . The favour thus openly avowed was not injurious to the ...
... cause of the Flo- rentines ( or , to speak more correctly , of the Medici family ) , who were then menaced by a powerful league , headed by Pope Sixtus V. and the King of Naples . The favour thus openly avowed was not injurious to the ...
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