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... remained in the form of decrees only , and never attained a practical existence . Yet he actually performed much ; energetically , but intemperately , and without the slightest trace of that politic respect which might have been shown ...
... remained in the form of decrees only , and never attained a practical existence . Yet he actually performed much ; energetically , but intemperately , and without the slightest trace of that politic respect which might have been shown ...
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... remained so ever since . The most powerful branch of the Banffy family , so widely spread throughout Transylvania , con- sisted of two persons , brother and sister . When and how the brother became Catholic , I cannot tell . c 2 JOSEPH ...
... remained so ever since . The most powerful branch of the Banffy family , so widely spread throughout Transylvania , con- sisted of two persons , brother and sister . When and how the brother became Catholic , I cannot tell . c 2 JOSEPH ...
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... remained secure . There were , no doubt , imperfections even in this grand and comprehensive scheme , and it was oddly inter- mingled with some freaks of absolutism . Certain simple sectaries , called ' Deists , ' but who seem rather to ...
... remained secure . There were , no doubt , imperfections even in this grand and comprehensive scheme , and it was oddly inter- mingled with some freaks of absolutism . Certain simple sectaries , called ' Deists , ' but who seem rather to ...
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... which became Protestant : the spirit , though not the form , almost as extensively in most of those which remained Catholic . At first the storm seemed to blow from all quarters at once , and to assail the palace as JOSEPH II . 29.
... which became Protestant : the spirit , though not the form , almost as extensively in most of those which remained Catholic . At first the storm seemed to blow from all quarters at once , and to assail the palace as JOSEPH II . 29.
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... remained tutto stupefatto . ' Joseph even gave his imagined victory something of a comic turn , by paying his Holiness a return visit at Rome , where the populace , always anti - papal , whatever the prevailing sentiment may be ...
... remained tutto stupefatto . ' Joseph even gave his imagined victory something of a comic turn , by paying his Holiness a return visit at Rome , where the populace , always anti - papal , whatever the prevailing sentiment may be ...
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