The History of Modern Europe: From the Fall of Constantinople, in 1453, to the War in the Crimea, in 1857, Volumen4

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J. Murray, 1864
 

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Página 561 - They solemnly declare that the present Act has no other object than to publish in the face of the whole world their fixed resolution, both in the administration of their respective States and in their political relations with every other Government, to take for their sole guide the precepts of that Holy Religion, namely the precepts of Justice, Christian Charity and Peace...
Página 32 - I foresee, that before the end of this century, the trade of both King and Priest will not be half so good a one as it has been.
Página 16 - In the great period of numismatic furore for ancient coins, which was at its height from the middle of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century...
Página 25 - ... of the heathen mythology had long since lost its effect; that giants, magicians, fairies, and heroes of romance which succeeded, had exhausted the portion of credulity which belonged to their age ; that now nothing was left to...
Página 234 - ... to have their homes violated, their children torn from them, and from the arms of their distracted mothers, without having the smallest chance of redress ? — why they should be denied, by the justice and humanity of Britain, the boon prepared for them by the Batavian government, when the Cape of Good Hope fell into the hands of the English ? — and why these intolerable oppressions should continue to be imposed upon them, in direct violation of the proclamation of the colonial government,...
Página 430 - Prussia, under the king of Saxony. 2. Danzig restored to the condition of a free city. 3. A part of New East Prussia (Bialystock) ceded to Russia. 4. Russia recognized Joseph Bonaparte as king of Naples, Louis Bonaparte as king of Holland, Jerome Bonaparte as king of Westphalia, a new kingdom yet to be created ; Russia, moreover, recognized the Confederation of the Rhine, and accepted the mediation of Napoleon in concluding peace with the Turks, while Napoleon accepted the like good offices from...
Página 24 - The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
Página 441 - His Majesty feels himself under no obligation to offer any atonement or apology to the Emperor of RUSSIA for the expedition against Copenhagen. It is not for those who were parties to the secret arrangements of Tilsit, to demand satisfaction for a measure to which those arrangements gave rise, and by which one of the objects of them has been happily defeated.
Página 28 - Wise men who want to speak to the vulgar in their own language instead of in a popular way will not be understood. Now, there are a thousand kinds of ideas which it is impossible to translate into the language of the people. Views very general and objects very remote are alike beyond its reach ; and each individual, approving of no other plan of government than that which promotes his own interests, does not readily perceive the benefits that he is to derive from the continual deprivations which...
Página 275 - This time the clergy were asked to swear hatred to royalty and anarchy, and attachment and fidelity to the Republic and to the Constitution of the Year III.

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