Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
death_n world_n year_n young_a 479 4 6.3866 4 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A50007 The history of the reign of Lewis the Great till the general peace concluded at Reswick in the year 1697 by Mr. Le Gendre ; made English from the third edition of the French.; Essai de l'histoire du regne de Louis le Grand jusques à la paix générale 1697. English Le Gendre, Louis, 1655-1733. 1699 (1699) Wing L944; ESTC R12498 179,772 352

There are 3 snippets containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

they should have been obliged to accept of a Peace upon the same Terms as they were proposed by our King It is certain that France never made a Peace which proved more Glorious or more for its Interest than this or which has been managed with more dexterity The chief Glory of it is due only to our King who not only himself made the first Project but also according to the different progress of the Treaty directed every step to be taken by his Ambassadours and Plenipotentiaries Godfrey de Estrades Marshal of France Charles Colbert Marquis de Croissy afterwards Minister and Secretary of State and Anthony de Mesmes Count de Avaux Thus Crown'd both with Lawrel and Olive-Branches he was ever after the Object of Admiration not only of his Subjects but also of all Europe AN ESSAY UPON THE HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF LEWIS the GREAT LIB IV. THE King having restored Peace to Europe employed all his care in rendering it as durable as possibly could be and having now laid aside his further thoughts of extending the limits of his Kingdom he judged it most conducing to his Affairs to secure his Frontiers on all sides by good Fortifications For which purpose after he had consulted with his best Engineers he himself made the Draughts of the most considerable Fortifications appointed the Charges and all other particulars belonging to the perfecting of the Works according to the best modern Rules Never were any places seen exceeding either in strength or beauty some of those that were by the King's Orders built in Flanders and Alsace the Franche Compte to defend the Passages of the Lis the Rhine the Saar the Moselle the Meuse and several other Rivers that border upon his Dominions it has been computed that since his accession to the Crown two hundred and twenty Towns Forts Citadels Ports and Harbours have been fortified by his Orders As he was not insensible that the best safeguard of a Prince is to maintain his Respect among his Enemies so not contented with having fortified his Frontiers unless they were also guarded by a good number of Troops he did only disband some of his Forces retaining the best in his Service to render himself at all times invincible tho his thoughts were now more bent to preserve Tranquility in his Dominions than to conquer his Enemies He kept all the Officers of the Disbanded Regiments in Pay and that he might never want a constant supply of good Officers The Academies for the Cadies even in time of Peace he erected many Companies of young Gentlemen these were brought up in all Warlike-Exercises and entertain'd at the King's Charge in the Citadels and when a Captain or Lieutenant's place became vacant it was these that supplied those Posts proportionable to their Deserts The better to encourage his Troops to glorious Actions by the assurance of a safe Retreat in their Native Country The Invalids he caused that Hospital called the Invalids to be built in one of the Suburbs of Paris a truly magnificent Structure where those that are render'd unserviceable either by Age or their Wounds find an honourable Retreat and Reward for their past Labours and Toils To afford also fome relief to such Gentlemen as often ruine their Estates in the Service of their Country The House of St. Lewis at St. Cyr. he founded a Community for three Hundred young Gentlewomen at St. Cyr. These young Ladies are educated in this House with particular care from the Age of Seven till Twenty when they are either provided with some advantageous Match or else if their inclination be otherwise are sent into a Nunnery This Noble Community is without parallel in Europe For the rest the King order'd his Troops to encamp every Year when he used frequently to take a view of them in Person and in his Progress to visit some of his Frontier Places to keep the Governours and Overseers of his Works and Places in awe and to encourage them by his Presence to perform their Duty As he was in the Year 1683. returning from one of these Progresses Death of the Queen of France where he had been accompanied by the whole Court the Queen Maria Theresia of Austria fell dangerously ill of a Fever which put an end to her Life on the 30th of July after four Days Sickness She was a Princess endowed with extraordinary Qualities very Devout Charitable to the Poor Liberal to her Domesticks and Affable to all the World She had the Happiness before her Death to see the Dauphin who was Born at Fontainbleau in the Year 1661. the first of November seven Minutes after Twelve a Clock at Noon Married to a vertuous Princess and a Father of a very fine young Prince Of six Children which she had brought into the World The Dauphin of France Lewis the Dauphin of France was the only surviving a very Handsome and Wise Prince of great Moderation and Vigorous Constitution as active and dextrous in his Military Exercises as courageous in encountring of Danger Never any Prince had the advantage of a more Noble Education in respect of the Ability of those to whose Care and Tuition he was committed the King having made choice of Charles de St. Maurice Duke of Montausier and Peer of France for his Governour and of James Bossuet Bishop of Meaux so famous for his many Works for his Preceptor but not satisfied with this he never was sparing in his Paternal Care to give him in Person all the necessary Instructions for the Accomplishment of a great Prince A King who really loves his Subjects does in vain strive to raise the Glory of his Country by his great Actions unless he also be careful to instruct his Successour to follow his Footsteps and to preserve by his own Courage and Conduct the Reputation which he has acquired It is easie to be imagined that there was never a Court in Europe but what most earnestly desired to be joyn'd to us in Alliance by so advantageous a Match especially since that Engagement which was some Years before negotiated with the Elector and Electoress of Bavaria on the account of Marriage betwixt the Dauphin and the Princess of Bavaria seem'd to be broken by the Death of the Parents of the said Princess but notwithstanding this Change and that the said Match was not attended with the same Advantages as before Dauphin Married the King jealous of his Honour and Royal Word Married the Dauphin to their Eldest Daughter on the 7th of March in the Year 1680. Notwithstanding all the Obstacles and Difficulties raised by the Imperial and Spanish Ministers about the execution of the Treaty of Nimiguen Europe enjoyed the Fruits of a Happy Peace for three Years In the mean while the King looking upon it as a most Glorious Work to turn his Arms against the Enemies of the Christian Name he resolved to employ his Forces against the Corsairs of Africa a Nation whose chief Glory Commerce and
p. 77 Vessels fifteen of the King's Vessels burnt p. 232 Villa Franca taken p. 230 Villeroy Commands the Grand Army in Flanders see Campaign of 1695. Bombards Brussels see Bombardment Vironne Lewis Victor de Rochechovard Duke of Peer and Marshal of France beats the Confederate Fleet. p. 136 Relieves Messina ibid. Vxelles Marquiss de defends Mayence with great Bravery p. 215 216 217 W. Walecourt the French repulsed near that place p. 214 Waldeck Count of General of the Confederate Army p. 219 Routed near Flerus see Battles War Civil War and its Origin p. 3 p. 4 5 Wesel surrendred p. 87 William III. King of Great Britain worsted at Steenkirk p. 239 At Neerwinden p. 248 At St. Denis p. 163 Takes Namur p. 272 Gains the Battle near the Boyne p. 225 Is present at the Great General Council at the Hague p. 226 His Courage and Resolution p 278 Is one of the first that Signs the Peace p. 308 Is acknowledged by France lawful King of England Scotland and Ireland p. 310 Wirtenbergh Dutchy of p. 215 Wirtenbergh Duke of made Prisoner by the Marshal de Lorge p. 243 Z. Zell Duke of routs the Marshal de Crequy p. 133 Takes Treves p. 134 Zutphen p. 94 Zwell p. 93 Books Printed and Sold by D. Midwinter and T. Leigh at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard THE Education of Young Gentlewomen written originally in French and from thence made English and improved for a Lady of Quality Twelves 1699. Advice to Young Gentlemen in their several Conditions of Life by way of Address from a Father to his Children by the Abbot Goussalt with his Sentiments and Maxims upon what passes in a Civil Society Printed at Paris 1697 and Translated into English Octav. A compleat Doctrine of the Bones according to the newest and most resined Notions of Anatomy shewing their Nature and Substance c. By Robert Baker Chirurgeon Octav. 1699. Plain and full Instructions to raise all sorts of Fruit-Trees that prosper in England c. the Second Edition with the Addition of two entire Chapters of Greens and Green-houses by the Author T. Laugford Gent. Oct. 1699. The Lives and Characters of the English Drammatick Poets also an Account of all the Plays that were ever yet Printed in the English Tongue c. first begun by Mr. Langbain improv'd and continued down to this time by a Careful Hand Octavo A Voyage to the East-Indies giving an Account of the Isles of Madagascar and Mascarene of Surat the Coast of Malabar c. Written originally in Fr. by Mr. Dellon M. D. Octav. The Mystery of Phanaticism or the Artifices of Dissenters to support their Schism together with the Evil and Danger of them set forth in several Letters c. By a Divine of the Church of England The 2d Edit Octav. The Life of our Blessed Saviour an Heroick Poem c. with above 60 Cuts The 2d Edit Fol. Resolves Moral Divine and Political By Owen Feltham Esq Fol. Bishop Burnet's History of the Reformation of the Church of England In Two Vol. Fol. Dr. Cave's Lives of the Primitive Fathers In two Vol. Fol. Bishop Tillotson's Posthumous Sermons In Five Vol. Octav. Books sold by Rob. Knaplock at the Angel and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard MR. Hole 's Letters concerning the Gift and Forms of Prayer The Mystery of Fanaticism The Government of a Wife Mr. De la Salle's Discoveries in North America Drydon's Virgil. Juvenal Pufendorf's Introduction to History A. Bishop Tillotson's Works Fol. Sir Roger L'strange's Tully Seneca M. Antonini Imp. Medit. cum Notis G. Gattakeri Graec. Lat. Gibson 's Anatomy Salmon's Dispensatory Chirurgery Synopsis Medicinae THE HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF LEWIS the GREAT LIB I. LEWIS the XIIIth had for a considerable time after his Marriage no Issue by Ann of Austria his spouse till in the Year 1638 on the 5th day of December at eleven of the Clock 22 Minutes before Noon His Birth she was happily delivered of a Son The Imperialists vanquish'd near Rhinefels a●d the Spaniards at Sea With what an universal satisfaction this welcome News was received all over the Kingdom is easier to be imagined than exprest The rejoycings made upon this occasion did in a great measure obliterate the glory of famous Victories obtained about the same time by the French over their Enemies the people of France looking upon them all at that juncture as scarce worth taking notice of and of little consequence in comparison of the advantages they promised themselves from the happy birth of a Dauphin The barrenness of the Queen and the ill state of the King's health had given occasion to several Cabals and Factions and no sooner was one head of this pernicious Hydra cut off but another appeared in its stead the divisions of the Great ones being risen to that pitch as to threaten the ruine of the whole Kingdom if by the auspicious Birth of this Prince these dreadful Clouds had not been dispersed Troubles during his Minority But the Death of Lewis the XIIIth which happened when the young Prince was but four Years and nine Months old occasioned no small apprehensions of future troubles in the State great discontents reigned among the Nobility the Parliaments were exasperated by many provocations and the People exhausted by heavy Impositions all which it was feared would have broke out into an open Rebellion during the young King's Minority Cardinal Julius Mazarin The Queen Regent being absolutely satisfied in the ability of the Cardinal Mazarin had made him Chief Minister of State to the great dissatisfaction of such of the Great ones as proposed to themselves to fish in troubled Waters and to find their account in fomenting Divisions in the Kingdom They alledged that the Cardinal being a Foreigner they did not question but that he would tread the footsteps of Cardinal Richlieu and in this high station revived the same haughty Maxims his Predecessor had made use of during his Ministry But this great Minister of State managed matters with so much dexterity that by bestowing ample favours and larger promises upon those of the discontented Party he brought many of them over to his side so that beyond all expectation his Ministry was very quiet for the first five years and the present condition of the Kingdom appear'd to be more flourishing at that time Victories near Rocroy near Rotewil Friburg Nortlingen and Leantz N●ar Cartagena and Castellamara than it had been for many Years before The French gained 5 Victories by Land and 2 at Sea and besides they made themselves Masters of 10 or 12 places of no small Importance But this prosperity was of no long continuance The excessive Ambition and Covetousness the Envy and Jealousies which reigned among the Nobility the pretended Zeal of some of the French Parliaments encouraged by the Favour and Acclamations of the common People which being inveigled with the hopes of an abatement of the heavy Taxes they
to his own Credit and Interest as to our King's Protection and the prudent Management of the then Bishop of Marseilles Coll. Johnson and the King's Ambassadour in Poland a great Politician and one of those extraordinary Persons who by their singular Merits become honourable to their Age and Highly Serviceable to the Church and State This King acquir'd immortal Glory about nine Years after when he left his Kingdom and marched in the year 1683 to the relief of Viena But ever since that time he had altred his measures and in lieu of prosecuting the War with vigour against the Infidels had given himself over to Idleness his main Care being to heap up such Treasures for his Children as to put them in a Condition either to obtain the Crown after his Death John Sobieski K. of Poland or at least to put them beyond the want of it whereas the best Treasure he could have left to his Children would have been to bless them with the Love of the People But these gave such evident demonstrations of the little esteem they had for his Family by pillaging his Estate during the Interregnum that it sufficiently appear'd to the World that his memory was become odious to them After the Death of this Prince a general Diet was call'd together in order to chuse a Successor to the Crown At this critical Conjuncture when most Princes of Europe were engaged in a War it was no wonder if each Party pretended to maintain their Interest at this Election The Election of a King of Poland inclining either to the Interest of France or the Confederacy being look'd upon at this juncture of time of such Consequence as to carry along with it no small Influence towards the raising or diminishing the Hopes of the Confederate Princes each Party therefore were not sparing in making Intrigues for or against the Interest of such a Person as they either wish'd to be elevated or excluded from the Throne of Poland Among the rest that pretended to the Crown was the present Czar of Muscovy His Empire is of a very vast extent Candidates for the Crown of Poland Czar of Muscovy reaching from the Boristhenes to the utmost Confines of the North and on the other side from the Frontiers of Sweden to the River Tanais It was represented to the Poles how glorious 't would be to their Nation to chuse a King who Commanded over so vast a Country but they wisely consider'd that their Liberty would be in no small danger under so Potent a Master who was able to bring them under Subjection by the Force of his own Arms. Duke of Lorrian The young Prince of Lorrain eldest Son to the late Prince Charles entred also the List of the Candidates not so much in hopes of succeeding in it as out of an Ambition of being put in the same Rank with the rest in his younger Years There was also much Discourse of Prince Lewis of Baden Prince Lewis of Baden This Prince was a great Master of the Art of War and had had great Success against the Infidels in Hungary whom he had vanquish'd at several times The Emperour in acknowledgment of his Services and the Prince of Orange K. William III. out of a particular Respect for his person would without all question have espoused his Interest if by joynt-consent of the Confederates it had not been judged more advisable to support the Faction of Prince James Sobieski Pr. James of Poland Brother-in-Law both to the Emperour and the Elector of Bavaria Every thing seem'd to concur for his Advantage He was eldest Son to the late King he wanted not Riches to purchase the Voices and Protection of the Great ones The Princes of Germany had espoused his Interest as well as the Dutch the Emperour and Prince of Orange K. William III. made use of all their Credit to promote his Elevation to the Crown But all these Advantages which in all outward appearance seem'd to be the most proper means to compass his Design prov'd perhaps the true cause of his Disappointment For his near Alliance with the House of Austria had raised a Jealousy in the Polish Lords lest he should when once their King improve it to their disadvantage and be encourag'd by the Neighbourhood of the Emperour to make use of his Power to the prejudice of their Liberty The pressing Sollicitations made in his behalf by the German Princes began to be suspected by the Populace by reason of a certain Jealousy and Emulation which is always to be observed betwixt two Potent neighbouring Nations He was as Liberal in his Promises to pay the Debts of the Crown in case he was elected King as profuse in his Money to gain the Hearts of the Poles but in vain nothing being able to remove the Aversion they had conceived against him The Confederates finding the Poles thus disposed began to despair of the Success of the Prince for which Reason they raised a new Faction for the Elector of Saxony The Elector promised to turn Catholick and there were not wanting those Elector of Saxony who assured them that he had abjured the Lutheran Religion two or three Months before notwithstanding that since that time he had made publick Profession of it He offered ten Millions for the Payment of Arrears due to the Army who during the time of the Interregnum had revolted for want of Pay He promised also to maintain at his own Cost fifteen thousand Men and never to make Peace with the Turks till he had restored all what they had taken from the Poles These specious Offers would perhaps have influenced the Poles to prefer the Elector before the rest if the Eyes and Hearts of the Polish Nobility had not been guided by the real Prospect of more solid Advantages The French Ambassador the Abbot Malehoor de Polygnack recommended to them Francis Lewis de Bourbon Prince of Conty Prince of Conty the eleventh Prince of the Royal Blood of France who promised to pay their Troops all their Arrears in ready Money and to retake Caminieck without the least Expence to the Commonwealth The Prince of Conty had gained the Esteem of all Europe not only by his Courage but also by many great and generous Actions and his unparallell'd Moderation He had Signaliz'd himself in the War in Hungary and since his Return had given many Demonstrations of his Valour to the World At Steenkirk and in the Battle of Neerwinden he had shew'd himself both an expert General and a brave Soldier These great Qualifications which made very favourable Impressions in the hearts of a War-like People received a new Lustre by our King's Recommendation to the Chief Men of Poland But this Negotiation met with no small Difficulties as being opposed by almost all the rest of the Princes of Europe The Ministers of these Princes insinuated without intermission to the Poles that to chuse a French Prince would be to put all