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order of Charles IX. and his mother, Catherine de Medici. On this occasion about 60,000 persons perished, including the Admiral De Coligny, one of the most virtuous men that France possessed, and the main stay of the Protestant cause.

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More generally known as “The Gunpowder Plot.”

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Isa. xiv. 14.

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Allusion is made to the “caduceus,” with which Mercury, the messenger of the Gods, summoned the souls of the departed to the infernal regions.

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“The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”—James i. 20.

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He alludes to Cosmo de Medici, or Cosmo I., chief of the Republic of Florence, the encourager of literature and the fine arts.

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Job ii. 10.—“Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?”

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By “public revenges,” he means punishment awarded by the state with the sanction of the laws.

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He alludes to the retribution dealt by Augustus and Anthony to the murderers of Julius Cæsar. It is related by ancient historians, as a singular fact, that not one of them died a natural death.

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