Europe, Or, A General Survey of the Present Situation of the Principal Powers: With Conjectures on Their Future ProspectsO. Everett, 1822 - 451 strán (strany) |
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... affairs would wear in future a new aspect . It seemed as if the French revolution , after failing , at least for a time , in its direct attempts to accomplish any considerable good , was destined to reform the world by reaction ...
... affairs would wear in future a new aspect . It seemed as if the French revolution , after failing , at least for a time , in its direct attempts to accomplish any considerable good , was destined to reform the world by reaction ...
Strana 11
... affairs . Had the question in dispute , however , been merely who should adminis- ter the government , and had the class of military proprietors conducted the administration with im- partiality and ability , it may be doubted whether ...
... affairs . Had the question in dispute , however , been merely who should adminis- ter the government , and had the class of military proprietors conducted the administration with im- partiality and ability , it may be doubted whether ...
Strana 19
... affairs of that country . This crisis has come on more slowly than he antici- pated , and the period at which he predicted that it would arrive has already passed . Still the prin- ciples on which his calculation are grounded were not ...
... affairs of that country . This crisis has come on more slowly than he antici- pated , and the period at which he predicted that it would arrive has already passed . Still the prin- ciples on which his calculation are grounded were not ...
Strana 35
... affairs of Europe present them- selves to my mind , I shall now consider a little more in detail the situation of the principal powers ; beginning with France , which has long been the central point of European politics . CHAPTER II ...
... affairs of Europe present them- selves to my mind , I shall now consider a little more in detail the situation of the principal powers ; beginning with France , which has long been the central point of European politics . CHAPTER II ...
Strana 49
... affairs , nor her immediate future prospects are very flattering . 1. The forms of administration are still in a great measure unsettled , although the seventh year of the new reign has elapsed . I speak not so much of the degree of ...
... affairs , nor her immediate future prospects are very flattering . 1. The forms of administration are still in a great measure unsettled , although the seventh year of the new reign has elapsed . I speak not so much of the degree of ...
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Strana 409 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects without molestation or hindrance; and all women and children scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages, or places, and in general all others...
Strana 409 - ... in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted by the armed force of the enemy...
Strana 409 - ... all women and children, scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen unarmed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages, or places, and in general all others whose occupations are for the common subsistence and benefit of mankind, shall be allowed to continue their respective employments, and shall not' be molested in their persons, nor shall their houses...
Strana 298 - Rousseau, which is not without a certain analogy in its forms to that of Burke. The principal of the Jesuits' college one day inquired of him by what art he had been able to write so well ;
Strana 302 - As regards merely the use of unpremeditated language, it is far from being a difficult attainment. A writer, whose opportunities of observation give weight to his opinion, says, in speaking of the style of the younger Pitt, " This profuse and interminable flow of words is not in itself either a rare or remarkable endowment. It is wholly a thing of habit, and is exercised by every village lawyer with various degrees of power and grace.