...day, seldom speaking, never smiling, seven or eight hours out of every twenty-four, at a writing-table covered with heaps of interminable despatches, in...the seas and mountains, in the very heart of Spain. Such is the description of Philip in the second page of the first volume of this history ; and henceforth...

...triumphs on the blood-stained soil of the Netherlands. Had that " exceeding proud, neat, and spruce "J Doctor of Laws, William Parry, who had been busying...and shutting the door, from time to time, fetching fresli bundles of letters and taking away others — all written and composed by secretaries or high...

...imperfectly-educated, patient, plodding invalid, with white hair and protruding undcr-jaw, and dreary visage, sitting day after day, seldom speaking, never smiling,...the seas and mountains, in the very heart of Spain." History has few more striking portraits than of this quiet, remorseless old man, potent as a Caesar,...

...imperfectly-educated, patient, plodding invalid, with white hair and protruding under jaw and dreary visage, is sitting day after day, seldom speaking, never smiling,...despatches, in a cabinet far away beyond the seas and the mountains, in the very heart of Spain. A clerk or two, noiselessly opening and shutting the door...

...imperfectly-educated, patient, plodding invalid, with white hair and protruding uncler-jaw, and dreary visage, sitting day after day, seldom speaking, never smiling,...of interminable despatches, in a cabinet far away bevond the seas and mountains, in the very heart of Spain." History has fewmore striking portraits...

...educated, patient, plodding invalid, with white hair and protruding under jaw and dreary visage, is sitting day after day, seldom speaking, never smiling,...seven or eight hours out of every twenty-four, at a writing-table covered with heaps of interminable despatches, in a cabinet far away beyond the seas...

...authority as " a small, dull, elderly, imperfectly educated, plodding invalid . . . sitting day by day, seldom speaking, never smiling, seven or eight hours out of every twenty-four, at a writing-table covered with interminable despatches." And of our own William III. — unquestionably...

...elderly, imperfectly educated, patient, plodding invalid, with white hair and protruding under jaw, and dreary visage, was sitting day after day, seldom...a writing table covered with heaps of interminable dispatches, in a cabinet far away beyond the seas and mountains, in the very heart of Spain. A clerk...

...darker. Yet such was the condition of Europe at that day. A small, dull, elderly, imperfectly educated, patient, plodding invalid, with white hair and protruding...beyond the seas and mountains, in the very heart of Spam. A clerk or two, noiselessly opening and shutting the door, from time to time, fetching fresh...

...or eight hours every twenty-four, at a writing-table covered with heaps of innumerable dispatches, in a cabinet far away beyond the seas and mountains, in the very heart of Spain;" scrawling upon those innumerable dispatches memoranda which were to consign to the sword, to the stake,...