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... object , as we have before attempted to show , rather the national advantage , or even sometimes the personal aggrandizement of the great Cardinal , than the establishment of a balance of power . So far from this being the case ...
... object , as we have before attempted to show , rather the national advantage , or even sometimes the personal aggrandizement of the great Cardinal , than the establishment of a balance of power . So far from this being the case ...
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... object of their ministers ' care . Such , nevertheless , was the practical result of this great struggle . For although the attempt of the House of Austria , during the period of Catholic reaction , to extend its power along with that ...
... object of their ministers ' care . Such , nevertheless , was the practical result of this great struggle . For although the attempt of the House of Austria , during the period of Catholic reaction , to extend its power along with that ...
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... object of jealousy and alarm . Louis XIV . , before the close of his reign , was thought to aim at being the universal monarch ; and Europe , to save herself from his extravagant ambition , formed new leagues to regulate the political ...
... object of jealousy and alarm . Louis XIV . , before the close of his reign , was thought to aim at being the universal monarch ; and Europe , to save herself from his extravagant ambition , formed new leagues to regulate the political ...
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... objects with most of the European Governments . But these subjects were still imperfectly under- stood . The chief aim was to obtain a favourable balance of trade , 1 See Vol . iii . p . 113 . 2 Hallam has given an elaborate analysis of ...
... objects with most of the European Governments . But these subjects were still imperfectly under- stood . The chief aim was to obtain a favourable balance of trade , 1 See Vol . iii . p . 113 . 2 Hallam has given an elaborate analysis of ...
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... object of his alarm and envy . The results of the war of the Spanish Suc- cession were , however , as we have seen , favourable to English commerce and colonization . Besides the advantages already mentioned , conceded by Spain in the ...
... object of his alarm and envy . The results of the war of the Spanish Suc- cession were , however , as we have seen , favourable to English commerce and colonization . Besides the advantages already mentioned , conceded by Spain in the ...
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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.