A Manual of the History of the Political System of Europe and Its Colonies: From Its Formation at the Close of the Fifteenth Century, to Its Re-establishment Upon the Fall of Napoleon, Том 2

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Сторінка v - HEEREN'S MANUAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF EUROPE AND ITS COLONIES, from its formation at the close of the Fifteenth Century, to its re-establishment upon the Fall of Napoleon, translated from the Fifth German Edition. New Edition, complete in 1 vol. Svo, cloth, 14*. 1846 "The best History of Modern Europe that has yet appeared, and it la likely long to remain without a rival."— X(A«iceum.
Сторінка 441 - Shortly after, another union, of a more doubtful character, was formed between the emperors of Austria and Russia, and the king of Prussia, to which they gave the name of the Holy Alliance.
Сторінка 390 - ... participate in the traffic, but by making it a standing article in all the treaties, would seem almost astonishing, did we not know, how much it is the interest of the ministers to give no handle of calumniation to the opposition, since the nation likewise appears to regard it as an affair of honor. It must be difficult to succeed in a contest, where avarice and prejudice are both to be subdued. The powers most interested in the abolition of the slave trade are Portugal, Spain and France. At...
Сторінка 204 - The casus fœderis of this article occurs, when a person, having committed murder or forgery within the jurisdiction of one of the contracting parties, and having sought an...
Сторінка 451 - Prussia, contained the following declaration: " The sovereigns recognise as the fundamental principle of the high compact now existing between them the unalterable resolution, neither in their own reciprocal concerns, nor in their relations with other powers, to depart from the strictest obedience to the maxims of popular right; because the constant application of these maxims to a permanent state of peace affords the only effectual guarantee for the independence of each separate power, and the security...
Сторінка 451 - Monarchs, who are joint parties to this System, by their own principles, no less than by the interests of their people, offers to Europe the most sacred pledge of its future tranquillity. The object of this Union is as simple as it is great and salutary. It does not tend to any new political combination —to any change in the Relations sanctioned by existing Treaties.
Сторінка 110 - An Act for establishing certain Regulations for the better Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe...
Сторінка 7 - B.) neither he nor his heirs had been reinstated. 2. The elector Joachim II. had made an hereditary alliance in 1537 with the duke of Liegnitz, Brieg and Wohlau, which Ferdinand I. had forbidden as king of Bohemia and feudal superior of the duke. After the extinction of the ducal house (1675) Austria took possession of the inheritance.
Сторінка 106 - I. containing the affairs of the Carnatic ; in which the rights of the nabob are explained, and the injustice of the company proved,
Сторінка 408 - The object thereof is the maintenance of the internal and external security of Germany, and of the independence and inviolability of the different German states.

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