The Life of Martin Luther to Which is Prefixed An Expository Essay On the Luth
The Life of Martin Luther to Which is Prefixed An Expository Essay On the Luth
George Cubitt
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Retreat, he thought, would obscure his fame. He resolved to fight ; and the consequence was the battle of Pavia, (fought on February 3d, 1525, ) from the effects of which he never fully recovered. His army was totally beaten, and he himself taken prisoner, and, after a short time, sent to Spain, where he continued in captivity the whole of the year. But even these favourable occurrences left little more leisure to his fortunate rival for attending to the internal state of the various German pri...ncipalities. He had to adopt measures for securing and improving the opportunities of extending success afforded by the victory of Pavia ; and the Italian princes, and the pope himself, jealous of his power, threw in his way all the obstacles they could command. Louisa of Savoy, the 9* 202 LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER. mother of Francis, to wliom he had committed the govermnent in his absence, rose with the exigency of her condition. Charles, though accustomed to great self-restraint, had yet been so elated by the battle of Pavia, and the captivity of a great monarch, that he seems to have forgotten his usual caution, and to have fancied his position much stronger than in reality it was.
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