 ON THE twenty-fifth day of October, 1555, the estates of the Netherlands were assembled in the great hall of the palace at Brussels. They had been summoned to be the witnesses and the guarantees of the abdication which Charles V. had long before resolved...  The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History - Page 95by John Lothrop Motley - 1856 - 664 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Noble Kibby Royse - American literature - 1872 - 378 pages
...October, 1555, the estates of the Netherlands were assembled in the great hall of the palace at Brussels. They had been summoned to be the witnesses and the...in his own costume, and usually attired in black, no one ever understood better than he how to arrange such exhibitions in a striking and artistic style.... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - American literature - 1872 - 382 pages
...assembled in the great hall of the palace nt Brussels. They had been summoned to be the witnesses and tliŤ guarantees of the abdication which Charles V. had...in his own costume, and usually attired in black, no one ever understood better than he how to arrange such exhibitions in a striking and artistic style.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 530 pages
...October, 1555, the estates of the Netherlands were assembled in the great hall of the palace at Brussels. They had been summoned to be the witnesses and the...in his own costume, and usually attired in black, no one ever understood better than he how to arrange such exhibitions in a striking and artistic style.... | |
 | Jerome Bruce Crabtree - Spanish-American War, 1898 - 1898 - 468 pages
...to execute. None knew better than h% the influence of great spectacles upon the masses of mankind. Plain even to shabbiness in his own costume and usually attired in black, no one ever understood better how to arrange such exhibitions in a striking and artistic style. The... | |
 | Jerome Bruce Crabtree - Cuba - 1898 - 482 pages
...Netherlands were assembled in the great hall of the palace at Brussels. They had been summoned to be witnesses and the guarantees of the abdication which Charles V had long been resolved upon and which he was that day to execute. None knew better than he the influence of... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - Netherlands - 1901 - 810 pages
...October, 1555, the estates of the Netherlands were assembled in the great hall of the palace at Brussels." They had been summoned to be the witnesses and the...shabbiness, in his own costume, and usually attired in black,fr no one ever understood better than he how to arrange such exhibitions in a striking and artistic... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - Readers - 1901 - 250 pages
...October, 1555, the estates of the Netherlands were assembled in the great hall of the palace at Brussels. They had been summoned to be the witnesses and the guarantees of. the abdication s which Charles V. had long before resolved upon, and which he was that day to execute. The palace... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun - American literature - 1915 - 670 pages
...October, 1555, the estates of the Netherlands were assembled in the great hall of the palace at Brussels. They had been summoned to be the witnesses and the...in his own costume, and usually attired in black, no one ever understood better than he how to arrange such exhibitions in a striking and artistic style.... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - American literature - 1915 - 492 pages
...October, 1555, the estates of the Netherlands were assembled in the great hall of the palace at Brussels. They had been summoned to be the witnesses and the...upon, and which he was that day to execute. . . . The gay capital of Brabant — of that province which rejoiced in the liberal constitution known by the... | |
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