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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... master Louis the✓ Eleventh as one of the best of princes , although he witnessed not only the crimes of his life , but the miserable fears and suspicions of his latter end , and has even faithfully recorded them . In this respect ...
... master Louis the✓ Eleventh as one of the best of princes , although he witnessed not only the crimes of his life , but the miserable fears and suspicions of his latter end , and has even faithfully recorded them . In this respect ...
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... master , and seems insensible alike to the . injustice of the ends at which he aimed , and to the baseness of the means by which he pursued them . Yet man is not less inconsistent in his faults and errors than in his virtues , and thus ...
... master , and seems insensible alike to the . injustice of the ends at which he aimed , and to the baseness of the means by which he pursued them . Yet man is not less inconsistent in his faults and errors than in his virtues , and thus ...
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... master . Two years later , he entered Liege with the vic- torious duke , and there is every reason to believe that at this period he was dubbed a knight . Soon after his return from this expedition , and a short time before the marriage ...
... master . Two years later , he entered Liege with the vic- torious duke , and there is every reason to believe that at this period he was dubbed a knight . Soon after his return from this expedition , and a short time before the marriage ...
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... master , and , in a word , more politic than his other advisers , succeeded in partially allaying the storm ; but it ... master's bed - chamber , when □ band of Liegeois , favoured by the darkness , xiv LIFE OF PHILIP DE COMMINES .
... master , and , in a word , more politic than his other advisers , succeeded in partially allaying the storm ; but it ... master's bed - chamber , when □ band of Liegeois , favoured by the darkness , xiv LIFE OF PHILIP DE COMMINES .
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... master's liberalities at an earlier period . The king's title to the estates and lordships with which he had enriched his new chamberlain , was very doubtful and disputable . It was by a series of violent and arbitrary acts that the ...
... master's liberalities at an earlier period . The king's title to the estates and lordships with which he had enriched his new chamberlain , was very doubtful and disputable . It was by a series of violent and arbitrary acts that the ...
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