Memoirs of Prince Metternich: cont. of Collection of documentsC. Scribner's Sons, 1880 - Austria |
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Page 622 - Epochs of Ancient History: A SERIES OF BOOKS NARRATING THE HISTORY OF GREECE AND ROME AND OF Their Relations to other Countries at Successive Epochs. EDITED BY THE Rev. GW COX, MA, Author of the " Aryan Mythology," " A History of Greece,
Page 622 - THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE FROM THE FLIGHT of Xerxes to the Fall of Athens.
Page 621 - A compendium treatise. intended not for lawyers nor for those having the profession of law in view. but for young men who are cultivating themselves by the study of historical and political Science.
Page 622 - The BEGINNING of the MIDDLE AGES; CHARLES the GREAT and ALFRED; the HISTORY of ENGLAND in its connection with that of EUROPE in the NINTH CENTURY. By the Very Rev. RW CHURCH, MA The AGE of ANNE.
Page 584 - April 9, 1815. (Supplement to No. 195.) 196. The Powers will not have Napoleon Bonaparte. They will make war against him to the last, but do not wish to fight with France. They desire to know what France wishes, and what you wish. They do not pretend to intermeddle in national questions, or with the desires of the nation concerning the government ; but they will in no case tolerate Bonaparte on the throne of France. Send a person who possesses your exclusive confidence to the place which the bearer...
Page 373 - January 3rd, 1810, containing the first intimation of the proposal, Madame de Metternich states expressly that it did not come from Napoleon at a ball, but from the Empress Josephine at Malmaison in these words : ' I have a plan which occupies me entirely, the success of which alone would make me hope that the sacrifice I am about to make (the divorce) will not be a pure loss : it is that the Emperor should marry your Archduchess. I spoke to him of it yesterday, and he said his choice was not yet...
Page 539 - This system, founded and pursued for the last century, has found fresh support in the general enthusiasm of the nation, in the energy of the army, and in the irresistible power which a certain number of distinguished military men exercise at present on the cabinet. Since the moment of Prussia's resurrection, the principal object of this party has been the total acquisition of Saxony. Being neither able nor willing to compete with Russia, they...
Page 240 - I was forced by you to counter-order, withdrawing not less than a hundred thousand men. I am frank. You are ruining yourselves, you are ruining me. England can give you money, but not enough; and she gives me none. The States of the Confederation, already very unfortunate, are being ruined ; and when all the male population of Europe are under arms, it will be necessary to raise the women! Can this state of things last? It must bring us to war against our will. What do you hope for? Are you in agreement...
Page 535 - a lasting peace founded on a just division of strength,' &c., &c., were uttered to tranquillise the people, and to give an air of dignity and grandeur to this solemn assembly; but the real purpose of the Congress was to divide amongst the conquerors the spoils taken from the vanquished.
Page 227 - ... to the different newspapers? Why do they not control their correspondents at Vienna, and why should they not refute these lies in the places where they are published ? A great fault which all the Governments, and particularly our own, have committed since the commencement of the French Revolution, is that they have regarded as useless, as beneath their dignity and that of the good cause, and indeed even as dangerous, to speak truth to the public, and to speak it incessantly. This fact is never...