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AGNES BERNAUERIN. 37
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VL—AGNES BERNAUERIN.
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•two In brothers the first , the quarter...
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Agnes Bernauerin. 37
AGNES BERNAUERIN . 37
Vl—Agnes Bernauerin.
VL—AGNES BERNAUERIN .
•Two In Brothers The First , The Quarter...
• two In brothers the first the quarter Dukes of the Ernst 15 th and century Wilhelm , Bav . aria Wilhel was ruled m died by
, , . a and widower Ernst ruled but had alone one , as son Herzog the von Duke _Baiern Albrecht -Muncken who . was He heir was
to the throne , . Duke Ernst , was a narrow-minded , , somewhat ordinary troubled man and ; his very nerves much were priest weak -ridden ; . and His according conscience to was the
custom of , his timehe became anxious to secure the favour of is the much Church occupied , in order , by to selfish allay his dread fears , ; the for coward priest when be a inevi narro tabl w nature y has the
priest dominion sways given the into government his hand , . domineers If the the land , and a prince rules , the famil Duke y Ernst ; and was especiall not altogether y was this satisfied the case with in his the son middle ' s character ages .
or the understood conduct natures . his of He princel the half two y -disliked son dukes . , The was half essential -feared so great , difference and , that wholl thoroug between y mis h -
comprehension by the father of the son was perhaps impossible . health Orowing faded _inox * e Duk timid e , Ernst more jealous became , and more more bigoted irritable and , as inore his
thoug distrustful at his h father an , obj while , 's ect court of the dislike young and the to duke the confessor priesthood was much of . beloved the The duke Pap , of al the regarded Legate laity ,
Albrecht with doubt and , aversion . Instinctively did they , distrust . superstitions by and its dislike nobleness a and character . of and their power which influence of , generous thoug ; and ht , on and above his lofty par the , of t was , sp Albrecht here lifted of ,
rsawthat reliion waswith those menbut a means acquiring the power , mind , wealth of g the , and father pleasure , the . seeds The of two , enmity priests and dail jealousy y sowed and in
taught him to suspect his son . The Legate , one of the , wily , and worldly political agents of the Papacy , had sufficient ability
was to enable politic him to h recognize to endeavour the talents at first of to the win prince the heir , and to the he
throne to the enoug interests of the Church , " , butto clear intellect cunning is transparentand " his Eminence ; had , the mortification ,
motives of finding and that estimate the hig , his her character nature of Albrecht Wounded could self- fathom love com his
-. bined who waited with baffled patientl policy y for an to arouse opportunity the hatred of inju of ring the the Churchman recusant , ,
ordinary whom he typ had e of failed priest to subdu ht e or his win . inions The confessor in part from , a more his
superior , and was reall , y caug inclined to op doubt the orthodoxy of young Albrecht . He hadmoreoveron more than one occasion
been exasperated and humiliated , by , the sarcasms of the scornful ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/37/
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