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... things shall not endure they are simply evils , as crimes against person and property are evils , and they must be extirpated , even if my power is torn up by the roots along with them ; if my own ease and popularity , and life itself ...
... things shall not endure they are simply evils , as crimes against person and property are evils , and they must be extirpated , even if my power is torn up by the roots along with them ; if my own ease and popularity , and life itself ...
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... things , and that she could never vanquish her regrets at the state compulsion which had forced her to exchange the convent for his palace . She left him one child ; but his little See the memoirs of the authoress , Caroline Pichler ...
... things , and that she could never vanquish her regrets at the state compulsion which had forced her to exchange the convent for his palace . She left him one child ; but his little See the memoirs of the authoress , Caroline Pichler ...
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... things as they were , without finding or even looking for , supporters and allies . He set his own sound good sense in opposition to rooted prejudice , to absurdity , to so - called policy , to pedantry , to jurispru- dence , to ...
... things as they were , without finding or even looking for , supporters and allies . He set his own sound good sense in opposition to rooted prejudice , to absurdity , to so - called policy , to pedantry , to jurispru- dence , to ...
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... everywhere of the inveterate abuses of serfdom ; but more especially in Hungary - where , however , some- thing in the way of amelioration had already been effected by the Empress - Queen - in Bohemia , Moravia JOSEPH II . 15.
... everywhere of the inveterate abuses of serfdom ; but more especially in Hungary - where , however , some- thing in the way of amelioration had already been effected by the Empress - Queen - in Bohemia , Moravia JOSEPH II . 15.
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... things when the revolutionary Emperor took in hand the entire abolition of these usages , as well as of their abuse , in his dominions . And , at least as to great part of them , he C 6 6 6 actually achieved it . In three or JOSEPH II . 17.
... things when the revolutionary Emperor took in hand the entire abolition of these usages , as well as of their abuse , in his dominions . And , at least as to great part of them , he C 6 6 6 actually achieved it . In three or JOSEPH II . 17.
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