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Memoirs of Leonora Christina, daughter of Christian iv. of Denmark, written ...

 By Eleonora Christina Ulfeldt, Clara Priess

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Leonora Christina, Denmark, Copenhagen
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Copenhagen, LEONORA CHRISTINA, King of Sweden
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Will the Lord cast off for ever ? And will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever ? Doth his promise fail for evermore ? Hath God forgotten to be gracious ? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? - Page 156

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. - Page 153

And shall not God avenge his own elect which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them ? I tell you, that he will avenge them speedily. - Page 156

And I said, This is my infirmity : but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. - Page 156

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? - Page 153

Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: Therefore my words are swallowed up. - Page 87

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. - Page 156

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge ? Therefore have I uttered that I understood not ; Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. - Page 155

His great work, however, was the ' Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I. - Page 22

Cod's great goodness to her, and her own innocence. " Never," says she, has God laid a burden on me without at the same time giving me strength in proportion, so that the burden has not overwhelmed or crushed me. He has strengthened me, comforted me, and often even cheered me. God has indeed done wonderful things for me, for it is more than inconceivable that I should have been able to survive the great misfortunes that have befallen me, and at the same time retain my reason... - Page 87

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Memoirs: Of Leonora Christina, Daughter of Christian IV of Denmark. Written ...

Memoirs: Of Leonora Christina, Daughter of Christian IV of Denmark. Written ...

by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, grevinde Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Johann Nepomuk Waldstein-Wartenberg, Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett, University Library System, Digital Research Library, University of Pittsburgh - 1872 - 330 pages

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"The Translation which had been made from M. Zeigler's German, as been carefully compared withthe Danish original."--Pref.

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Copenhagen - Page 23
Meanwhile the punishment of behead ing and quartering had been executed on a wooden effigy in Copenhagen. His palace was demolished, and the site laid ...
more pages: 15 16 17 18 20 22 49 50 59 74
Malmo - Page 17
Amongst others, the citizens of Malmo, where Ulfeldt at the time resided, entered into a conspiracy to throw off the Swedish dominion ; but it was ...
more pages: 16 18 58 59 60 90 318
Maribo - Page 24
A royal manor, formerly a convent, at Maribo, on the island of Laaland, was granted to Leonora shortly after her release from the Blue Tower, ...
Skanderborg - Page 36
The betrothed sent his servant Wolff to Skanderborg, with menaces to Alexandre. At the same time Alexandre was warned that the King had sent for the ...
more pages: 35
Nakskov - Page 15
Ulfeldt assisting its progress by persuading the commander of the fortress of Nakskov to surrender without resistance ; and in February the Danish ...
Assens - Page 54
in order that they might arrive at Assens the next evening, which it was impossible to do with her own horses, as they did not arrive till morning. ...
Hamburg - Page 272
She left her husband two years before he died, and repaired to Hamburg, supporting herself by spinning ; she had before been in the service of a ...
more pages: 220 259 262 265 317 320 321
Dover - Page 104
To this question he always gave me the reply which the traitor Braten had given me at Dover (when I asked of him the cause of my arrest) ; namely, ...
more pages: 21 47 79 93 112 163
Ostend - Page 82
The other two traitors said, ' We will conduct you to Ostend.' She had always suspected treachery, and had spoken with her companion, ...
more pages: 47
La Roche - Page 319
received information from a certain Demoiselle Langlois that La Roche was implicated in a conspiracy for surrendering the principal Danish fortresses ...
Amsterdam - Page 49
He consented to this at length, and they took their two eldest children with them, and went by sea to Amsterdam. ...
more pages: 77
Brunswick - Page 33
When she was better she asked after him, and she was made to believe that he was gone away with his mother (who was at this time at Brunswick), ...
Vienna - Page 26
She followed her brother to Vienna, where she died. It was she who transmitted the MS. of Leonora's Memoir of her life in the Blue Tower to the ...
more pages: 6 25
Padua - Page 5
Of his youth nothing is known with any certainty, except that he travelled abroad, as other young noblemen of his time, studied at Padua, and acquired ...
Paris - Page 78
arrived at Paris, the doctors did not find it advisable that he should take the waters, and he returned to Bruges. ...
more pages: 5 20 46 149
London - Page 47
to the beheaded King, who was then a prisoner ; and they watched her and surrounded her with spies, so she did not make a long sojourn in London. ...
more pages: 8 79 81 163
Dunkirk - Page 46
there they took leave of the King and of the Queen Mother, Regent, and as they were returning by Dunkirk she had the curiosity to see England, and.
Amiens - Page 46
From thence she went with her husband to France, first to Paris and afterwards to Amiens ; there they took leave of the King and of the Queen Mother, ...
Brussels - Page 319
He and a friend of his, Jaques Beranger, were arrested in Brussels in September 1663, but not, as Leonora says, immediately brought to Copenhagen. ...
Stockholm - Page 51
In the spring they again made a voyage to Stockholm, at the desire of Queen Chr. . . . This good Queen, who liked intrigue, tried to excite jealousy ...
Rome - Page 148
Upon this, he gave me the interpretation to read, and the purport of it was that our son had written from Rome, asking for money, which was growing ...