Readers of this enlightened gold-nugget generation can form to themselves no conception of the spirit that then possessed the nobler kingly mind.

"The command of God endures through Eternity, _ Verbum Dei Manet In AEternum,"_ was the Epigraph and Life-motto which John the Steadfast had adopted for himself; "V.

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I.AE.," these initials he had engraved on all the furnitures of his existence, on his standards, pictures, plate, on the very sleeves of his lackeys,--and I can perceive, on his own deep heart first of all.

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