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... Nature of his Claims . He overruns Silesia Battle of Mollwitz • Negotiations of Belle - Isle Alliance of France and Prussia Treaty of Nymphenburg Coalition against Maria The- resa Alliance of Hanover Anna , Russian Regent Elizabeth ...
... Nature of his Claims . He overruns Silesia Battle of Mollwitz • Negotiations of Belle - Isle Alliance of France and Prussia Treaty of Nymphenburg Coalition against Maria The- resa Alliance of Hanover Anna , Russian Regent Elizabeth ...
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... natural result of the period which preceded it ; and it might , perhaps , not be difficult to show that the same was the case with the two celebrated eras of Athens and Rome . It would be absurd to suppose that the patron- age of the ...
... natural result of the period which preceded it ; and it might , perhaps , not be difficult to show that the same was the case with the two celebrated eras of Athens and Rome . It would be absurd to suppose that the patron- age of the ...
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... natural tie , was a source rather of weak- ness than of strength . France , entrenched within her own boundaries , and with scarce a single foreign possession , was a much more formidable Power . Spain was also internally weakened ...
... natural tie , was a source rather of weak- ness than of strength . France , entrenched within her own boundaries , and with scarce a single foreign possession , was a much more formidable Power . Spain was also internally weakened ...
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... natural that France , whose dominions were surrounded by those of the Emperor , should first take alarm ; and hence the struggle between Charles and Francis I. recorded in the preceding volumes . But France had to maintain the struggle ...
... natural that France , whose dominions were surrounded by those of the Emperor , should first take alarm ; and hence the struggle between Charles and Francis I. recorded in the preceding volumes . But France had to maintain the struggle ...
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... natural , from the spirit of those ages , that the Pope should be made the arbiter of secular disputes , in which his authority supplied the place of a code of public law . For the same reason we are not surprised to find that the ...
... natural , from the spirit of those ages , that the Pope should be made the arbiter of secular disputes , in which his authority supplied the place of a code of public law . For the same reason we are not surprised to find that the ...
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