Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	charles_n	king_n	lewis_n	2,106	5	10.5351	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47665	The gallery of heroick women written in French by Peter Le Moyne of the Society of Jesus ; translated into English by the Marquesse of Winchester.; Gallerie des femmes fortes. English	Le Moyne, Pierre, 1602-1671.; Winchester, John Paulet, Earl of, 1598-1675.	1652 (1652)	Wing L1045; ESTC R12737	274,351	362

Roles of her Marriage should be overspred with Thorns She had made choice of Ferdinand Prince of Aragon and King of Sicily before Alph●●s● King of P●●tugal and Charles Duke of ●uiev●● brother to Lewis the Eleventh And this Choice wherein Inclination was fortified by Interest had been generally approved by all the high Degrees of this Kingdom The King her Brother who ought to be the first in purchasing Honours to his Crown and House singly opposed this general Approbation and blasted the publick joy by the sharpness of a private Grudge He spred snares of all sorts upon the ways of his Sisters Innocence He used a great deal of Art to dissolve the knot of her Marriage He endeavoured to break it by violence But this Tye not being to be broken or loo●ened and his snares being too visible and too grosly laid to catch the prey which he pursued he turned his forces and anger upon the Places which belonged to the Patrimony of Isabella And if his malice had been more prosperous and better conducted if Defenders of the Right of Innocence had not risen up he would have turned her naked out of the Kingdom But God who delights in defeating the Designs of Iniquity and tyes up at his pleasure the hands of Usurpers did not permit that Injustice though Powerfull and assisted by Authority should prevail against disarmed Right and forsaken Innocence He was pleased to make use of Henry to exercise Isabella as Nature makes use of Wind to fasten young Palms as Artists imploy Fire and Iron to purifie Gold and to give a kinde of Soveraignty with the Image of the Prince And after that the Vertue of Isabella made Warlike and Fortified Instructed and Beautified by this exercise had received the last form of Heroick Vertue he sent death which snatched the Crown from the spiteful and usurping Brother and placed it upon the head of the Sister ordained to the glory of Spain and to the discovery of the new World It cannot be said with what Designs she ascended the Throne with what Dextenty and Force with what Purity of Intention and Capacity of Minde she set her hand to the Helm Policy was never more able nor more found or better Designed Reason of State was never more extended or powerful the Graces were never more vigorous nor efficacious then in this Princess She was the Domestick Oracle of Ferdinand and the visible Intelligence of his Councel The Wise and Speculative of his Kingdom received from Her their purest Lights They deliberated of nothing but in her presence and by the clarity of her Minde And ordinarily the uncertainty and doubts of Consultation were not cleared but by her Councels which dis-intangled confused opinions which Fortified the Timerous and Irresolute which gave the being and consistency to Affairs She held likewise the Place of the first Cause and principal Agent in the conduct of this great Engine And the History of Spain acknowledgeth that Ferdinand I say that able and wise Ferdinand did act nothing but by the direction and as subaltern to Isabella Her first care was to rally the parts of the State which the past troubles had dis-joynted Having rallyed them she used much Art to link them together And her Art was so efficacious and successful as she set them all in their former places and rendred to every one their first Settlement and Natural Functions Scarce had she restored Health and Repose to this great Body but she was necessitated to put her self in Arms to defend it Alphons● King of Portugal invited by Disgusted and Factious People invaded Castile with great Forces and greater Pretences Certainly the fire must needs be great which was stirred by Domesticks and inkindled by Strangers Isabella hastened to the noise and smoke and did not return till she had quench'd it with the blood of those who had prepared either the Bait or Matter of it Her Crown being setled she applied her thoughts to the Expedients how to inlarge it and to adde new Howers and Titles thereunto And because there are no Conquests more Just more Illustrious nor more Heroick then those which inlarge the bounds of the Church and Religion and give new Subjects and Kingdoms to Iesus Christ She undertook the destruction of the Empire of the Moo●s who for so many Ages had been the Dishonour Scandal and Yoke of Spain It is true that this Enterprise was her Master piece She performed therein all that an exact and expert Commander could have done with all his Wit and Understanding She was alwaies present in the Field she assisted at the taking of principal Places And after many years of Toyl and Agitation she caused that great Col●●●us to ●all which so many Ages and hands had raised and returned with 〈◊〉 added to her Crown and the Title of Catholique which she ●cquired to her self and the Kings her Successors Not content to raign in a known World and to overcome by the sun of Europe she desired to vanquish and raign in another World and under other Planets For this end she contributed with her Courage and Treasure to the resolution and designs of Columba She sent her Fortune with him in quest of a concealed Heaven and of an unknown Nature And if Europe at present be enriched with Gold and precious Stones out of new Countries if the new found Lands be enlightened by the Faith and Religion of Europe both Europe and the new Discovered lands ought to serve as an Ornament and Lustre to the Magnanimity of Couragious Isabella This Understanding and Magnanimity were accompanied with an exact and severe an incorruptible and Disinterelled Justice Whereupon I call to minde that being sollicited to pardon a Criminal of quality who offered a very considerable summ for the maintainance of some Troops which marched against the Moors She made these Solliciters fully understand that she was not raised to the Throne to make Traffick of Favours and Pardons and to set Impunity and Crimes to sale And to the end there might not seem to be any thing of Interest in her Integrity or that she aimed at the Confiscation of the Criminals Estate she gave it all entire to his Children and would not suffer their Succession to be in the least measure diminished by it So far was she from grating upon Crimes and Penalties so far was she from laying up in her Coffers the price of blood and the revenue of tears that this good Princess took no greater pleasure then in giving with liberall hands then in making men rich and happy She measured the felicities of her Kingdome by the extent of her good deeds She counted her Revenues by the gratifications which issued forth of her Exchequer and her chief stock her most dear and precious Treasure consisted in the hearts and affections of her people Never were any liberalities more natural nor less restraind more obliging or better disposed then hers Never did Magnificence act more gallantly nor after a more Heroick manner then