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... period been used for the support of thrones . ' His- toire de la Révolution Française , vol . i . 346 . Anyone who should undertake in earnest the task of col- lecting and analysing in one work the great subject of which the democratic ...
... period been used for the support of thrones . ' His- toire de la Révolution Française , vol . i . 346 . Anyone who should undertake in earnest the task of col- lecting and analysing in one work the great subject of which the democratic ...
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... period of apprentice- ship that Joseph , like Frederic the Great , acquired , and in some degree deserved , that character of a ' sceptred cynic ' which Lord Byron pronounces so peculiarly in- appropriate for crowned heads . But in ...
... period of apprentice- ship that Joseph , like Frederic the Great , acquired , and in some degree deserved , that character of a ' sceptred cynic ' which Lord Byron pronounces so peculiarly in- appropriate for crowned heads . But in ...
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... periods : by flattery and management of the more powerful elements , so as to induce them to combine against the weaker , as had been the policy of Maria Theresa , and was that of Metternich in his better period ; by jealous military ...
... periods : by flattery and management of the more powerful elements , so as to induce them to combine against the weaker , as had been the policy of Maria Theresa , and was that of Metternich in his better period ; by jealous military ...
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... period of reaction had set in , for the reestablishment of all the old tyrannical privileges which Joseph had abated . These will be found in the first chapter of Springer's work on the modern history of Austria . Happily for itself ...
... period of reaction had set in , for the reestablishment of all the old tyrannical privileges which Joseph had abated . These will be found in the first chapter of Springer's work on the modern history of Austria . Happily for itself ...
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... period of his accession , Protestantism , once widely spread over the German portion of his dominions , had been trampled down for an hundred and fifty years ; it had no longer any legal existence , and its few professors were barely ...
... period of his accession , Protestantism , once widely spread over the German portion of his dominions , had been trampled down for an hundred and fifty years ; it had no longer any legal existence , and its few professors were barely ...
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