Essays On the Political History of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, And Seventeenth Centuries
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received ambassadors at the monastery, and kept up a correspondence with the world. When at sunset he was carried on to a terrace constructed for the purpose, that he might thence enjoy the beauties of nature, he was delighted to breathe the balmy air, because it was beneficial to his health. There he reflected on the letters he had received 188 HISTORICAL ESSAYS. and the visits and occurrences of the day : these things occupied him more than the glow of the sinking sun, the southern splendour ...of the land- scape, or the distant outline of the mountains of Estramadura. Charles V. is the most distinguished person in history who marks the beginning of modern warfare and modern politics. He closes most distinctly the long period, so romantic and so confused, which constitutes the middle ages, — a condition of society which did not end without a struggle, but which languished for many years, and changed its cha- racter before its final extinction. Charles V. was born at Ghent : his father was of German extraction, and his mother was Spanish.
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