John De Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland: Or, Twenty Years of a Parliamentary Republic, Volume 2Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 - Netherlands |
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... carrying out of his proposal . Candia , left to its fate , fell after an heroic resistance , and the alliance of the United Provinces with Turkey remained unimpaired . The States - General hoped to profit by it to dissuade the Sultan ...
... carrying out of his proposal . Candia , left to its fate , fell after an heroic resistance , and the alliance of the United Provinces with Turkey remained unimpaired . The States - General hoped to profit by it to dissuade the Sultan ...
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... carried out his instructions . The States - General thought with justice that they might count upon the Swiss Cantons . They hoped , writes De Witt , to find their advantage in the close union of two republics founded on the same ...
... carried out his instructions . The States - General thought with justice that they might count upon the Swiss Cantons . They hoped , writes De Witt , to find their advantage in the close union of two republics founded on the same ...
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... carry the same weight : Hamel Bruynincx , their former agent at Cologne and Frankfort , and councillor and sheriff of Bois - le - Duc . His mission was entirely unsupported . The States - General had not secured themselves any champion ...
... carry the same weight : Hamel Bruynincx , their former agent at Cologne and Frankfort , and councillor and sheriff of Bois - le - Duc . His mission was entirely unsupported . The States - General had not secured themselves any champion ...
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... carry through this negotiation , which might result in the most glorious diplomatic success of his reign . He was tempted by the hope of acquiring peace- ably and at once an increase of territory which would make France the true ...
... carry through this negotiation , which might result in the most glorious diplomatic success of his reign . He was tempted by the hope of acquiring peace- ably and at once an increase of territory which would make France the true ...
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... carried on in concert with England and Sweden . Foiled in his expectation , Louis XIV . had no further interest in prolong- ing the negotiations . Unable to obtain from the States- General any engagement in contravention of the Triple ...
... carried on in concert with England and Sweden . Foiled in his expectation , Louis XIV . had no further interest in prolong- ing the negotiations . Unable to obtain from the States- General any engagement in contravention of the Triple ...
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