Modern Europe, Volume 4 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 83
Page v
... English Commerce . 28 The French and English in the East Indies 29 Increased importance of France State of Spain 12 • Of England . 13 In Holland Theory of the Balance of Power 14 In England and Prussia . Rivalry of France and Austria ...
... English Commerce . 28 The French and English in the East Indies 29 Increased importance of France State of Spain 12 • Of England . 13 In Holland Theory of the Balance of Power 14 In England and Prussia . Rivalry of France and Austria ...
Page ix
... English Policy · 174 ― 1761. Pitt's Negotiations with France 175 The Family Compact between France and Spain Pitt rejects the French Ulti- matum . Campaign in Germany 1762. War declared between Spain and England . Retrospect of ...
... English Policy · 174 ― 1761. Pitt's Negotiations with France 175 The Family Compact between France and Spain Pitt rejects the French Ulti- matum . Campaign in Germany 1762. War declared between Spain and England . Retrospect of ...
Page xii
... English Studies 311 • Character of the Deputies 335 Literary Influences 312 Affectation of Ancient Manners 336 313 Extenuating Circumstances Profligacy of the Clergy . Character of Voltaire's Works The Encyclopædists J. J. Rousseau ...
... English Studies 311 • Character of the Deputies 335 Literary Influences 312 Affectation of Ancient Manners 336 313 Extenuating Circumstances Profligacy of the Clergy . Character of Voltaire's Works The Encyclopædists J. J. Rousseau ...
Page 22
... English and French , their only rivals in this quarter of the globe , were at first but slow and feeble . The attempts of the English East India Company , founded as we have said in the year 1600 , to open a trade with the Spice Islands ...
... English and French , their only rivals in this quarter of the globe , were at first but slow and feeble . The attempts of the English East India Company , founded as we have said in the year 1600 , to open a trade with the Spice Islands ...
Page 23
... English power in the East now began to make more rapid strides . Before the end of the century , factories and forts had been established at Bencoolen in Sumatra and at Hooghly ; and the district of Calcutta was purchased , and Fort ...
... English power in the East now began to make more rapid strides . Before the end of the century , factories and forts had been established at Bencoolen in Sumatra and at Hooghly ; and the district of Calcutta was purchased , and Fort ...
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.