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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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further. She saw for herself that thequalities needed for the control of this rude world had not been given her.Even her mother-love seemed useless now, and abandoning the effort to regainHenry she retired to Rome, resigned all her imperial dignities, and becamea nun. The instigator of this successful abduction was Hanno, the powerful Arch-bishop of Cologne. Hanno assumed the guardianship of the boy king, andgoverned in his name. He treated Henry with such harshness and severitythat all the lad learned under his government was to hate his master with avehemence, childish sometimes in its expression, but dangerous nevertheless. Another and far more crafty Archbishop, Adalbert of Bremen, seeing l\owmatters stood, managed to get both Henry and the regency away from Hanno.Adalbert then followed a directly opposite course with his young charge.Whereas Hanno had been over-severe, Adalbert abandoned all restraint anddiscipline. The boy received no good training whatever, and every temptation
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Germany—Youth of Henry IV. 565 to idleness and folly was thrust in his way. Adalberts court was poisonedwith wickedness, and the impressionable lad was taught to revel in vice. Theinevitable consequence followed: Henry became infatuated with his guardian—•and ruined for life. It is idle tp speculate as to what sort of king Henry might have made witha different childhood. He seems to have had good instincts, personal courage,and a generous heart; but he lacked the strength of mind to resist the evil in-fluences which wrecked his youth. He grew into one of the worst kings thathave misgoverned unhappy Germany. When he was still only fifteen, a coronation ceremony was held, and theassembled nobles declared him fitted to rule for himself. The boy promptlyproved their folly and his own by drawing the imperial sword, with which theyhad girt him, and flourishing it in the face of Archbishop Hanno, still by farthe most powerful man in the realm. Henry then placed all authority inAdalbert

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