History of the Political System of Europe, and Its Colonies: From the Discovery of America to the Independence of the American Continent, Volumen1S. Butler and Son, 1829 |
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History of the Political System of Europe, and Its Colonies: From the ... Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren Vista de fragmentos - 1829 |
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Página 216 - ... consequence of the existing war. The extension of this system of loans was possible, therefore, only in case of the continual increase of the national wealth of Britain. It is true, indeed, that no right at home or abroad was thus violated ; but even what is good may be abused — Hceren, vol.
Página 261 - ... cabinets was generally directed, since every other great interest depended on it. England was interested in its preservation, because her florishing commerce was advanced by its conditions, and the protestant succession to her throne confirmed : it was important to France, inasmuch as it involved...
Página 209 - ... ministers endeavored to secure a majority in parliament. Foreign powers had ample cause to use circumspection in their relations with England; for a change of ministers implied a change of political maxims, and the successors deemed themselves but slightly bound by the engagements of their predecessors.
Página 2 - Puissances de l'Europe tant entre elles qu'avec les Puissances et États dans d'autres parties du monde depuis 1761 jusqu'à présent, précédé de Traités du XVIII« siècle antérieurs à cette époque et qui ne se trouvent pas dans le Corps universel diplomatique de Mrs. Dumont et Rousset et autres Recueils généraux de Traités.
Página 265 - ... time the dukes of Savoy called themselves kings of Sardinia. The emperor Charles VI. was without male offspring. His principal endeavor throughout his whole reign was to secure the various lands which were united under the sceptre of Austria against division after his death.
Página 19 - ... called the Balance of Power ; that is, the arrangement of the European states in such a system that the weak might be protected from the aggressions of the powerful and the ambitious. This system first began in Italy, which was divided into a number of petty states ; its chief members were the dutchy of Milan, and the republic of Venice, in the north ; the republic of Florence, and the states of the church, in the centre ; and the kingdom of Naples, in the south. Encouraged by the distracted...
Página 230 - ... corruption, faction, and confusion ? The members of the diet — the nobles who had usurped the power of electing their king — were ready to sell themselves to the best bidder at the courts of Vienna, France, Saxony, Sweden, or Brandenburgh ; nay, in the words of the learned and philosophical historian,* " A Polish royal election was, henceforth, nothing more than a double auction of the throne— partly in secret, for the benefit of the voters, partly in public, for the benefit of the state...