Modern Europe, Volume 4 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 87
Page iii
... IN FIVE VOLUMES . VOL . IV . FROM 1714 TO 1796 . BIBLIO JAN 1878 COLFIANA LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . 1877 . [ All rights reserved . ] ཤཱ ཀྱ ༣ . CHISWICK PRESS : CHARLES WHITTINGHAM , TOOKS COURT , CHANCERY.
... IN FIVE VOLUMES . VOL . IV . FROM 1714 TO 1796 . BIBLIO JAN 1878 COLFIANA LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . 1877 . [ All rights reserved . ] ཤཱ ཀྱ ༣ . CHISWICK PRESS : CHARLES WHITTINGHAM , TOOKS COURT , CHANCERY.
Page xii
... Court 332 310 Effects of Centralization . 333 French Writers who influenced the Sovereignty of the Paris Mob . 334 Revolution Montesquieu Voltaire . His English Studies 311 • Character of the Deputies 335 Literary Influences 312 ...
... Court 332 310 Effects of Centralization . 333 French Writers who influenced the Sovereignty of the Paris Mob . 334 Revolution Montesquieu Voltaire . His English Studies 311 • Character of the Deputies 335 Literary Influences 312 ...
Page 5
... Court , which set the fashion in dress and manners , as well as in literature . There was much , fortunately , in Louis's character that was really refined and ele- gant , and which left an unmistakeable impress on the nation . Although ...
... Court , which set the fashion in dress and manners , as well as in literature . There was much , fortunately , in Louis's character that was really refined and ele- gant , and which left an unmistakeable impress on the nation . Although ...
Page 6
... Courts of Austria and Spain were shackled by a cold and formal etiquette , destructive of all wit , taste , and fancy . The only Court which approached the French was that of England under Charles II . Essentially , perhaps , Charles ...
... Courts of Austria and Spain were shackled by a cold and formal etiquette , destructive of all wit , taste , and fancy . The only Court which approached the French was that of England under Charles II . Essentially , perhaps , Charles ...
Page 7
... courts . In the state of society which then existed , this was no small addition to the dignity of letters . Under the ... Court to the Cabinet of Louis , we find him ' Martin , t . xiii . p . 161 . 8 COLBERT . [ CHAP . XLII . here also ...
... courts . In the state of society which then existed , this was no small addition to the dignity of letters . Under the ... Court to the Cabinet of Louis , we find him ' Martin , t . xiii . p . 161 . 8 COLBERT . [ CHAP . XLII . here also ...
Contents
62 | |
65 | |
72 | |
79 | |
86 | |
93 | |
99 | |
108 | |
111 | |
114 | |
150 | |
156 | |
183 | |
189 | |
201 | |
202 | |
209 | |
219 | |
330 | |
331 | |
337 | |
361 | |
364 | |
376 | |
385 | |
396 | |
404 | |
419 | |
426 | |
431 | |
438 | |
473 | |
481 | |
495 | |
499 | |
505 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acceded Alberoni alliance allies Ambassador army Assembly attack August Austrian Bavaria Bohemia Britain Cabinet campaign Catharine caused CHAP Charles Charles VI command compelled concluded Convention Count Crown death declared despatched Diet dominions Don Carlos Duchy Duke Duke of Orleans Dutch election Elector Elector of Bavaria Elector of Saxony Elizabeth Emperor Empire Empress endeavoured England English entered Europe favour Ferdinand fleet France Frederick Frederick II French Gesch Government Grand Hanover Hist Imperial Joseph Kaunitz King of Prussia Kingdom Leopold Lorraine Louis XV March Maria Theresa Marshal Menzel Minister nations negotiations nobles obtained Paris Parma peace Peace of Passarowitz Peter Philip Polish political Porte possessions Pragmatic Sanction pretended Prince provinces Queen of Hungary reign restored Revolution Royal Russian Sardinia Saxony September Silesia Sovereign Spain Spaniards Spanish Bourbons Stadholder Stanislaus States-General success Sweden throne tion took treaty troops Turkish Turks Wallachia Wenck
Popular passages
Page 369 - Assembly required the clergy to take an oath of fidelity to the nation, the law, and the King, and to maintain the Constitution.
Page 310 - Fontenelle was their precursor, whose long life, extending from the middle of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century, rendered him the connecting link between the literature of the two periods.
Page 18 - words of art" as he calls them, which Philemon Holland, a voluminous translator at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century...
Page 327 - 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.