A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY, FROM THE YEAR 1755 TO THE TREATY OF AMIENS IN 1802 WITH NOTES, TO VERIFY OR ELUCIDATE THE PASSAGES TO WHICH THEY REFER. |
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... Royal session . Its consequences . - Assembly removes to a tennis court . - Resolu- tions . The nobles join the tiers etat . - Views of Mirabeau and the duke of Orleans . Ill - judged measures of the court . - Necker dismissed ...
... Royal session . Its consequences . - Assembly removes to a tennis court . - Resolu- tions . The nobles join the tiers etat . - Views of Mirabeau and the duke of Orleans . Ill - judged measures of the court . - Necker dismissed ...
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... royal . - He promotes learning , & c . He avoids interference in foreign broils . 1788.- -Policy of Denmark respecting Russia and Sweden . - War with Sweden . 1789. - See Sweden . 1791.- -The Danish minister mediates between Russia and ...
... royal . - He promotes learning , & c . He avoids interference in foreign broils . 1788.- -Policy of Denmark respecting Russia and Sweden . - War with Sweden . 1789. - See Sweden . 1791.- -The Danish minister mediates between Russia and ...
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... Royal Academy at Berlin , gives an account of all the means employed by Frederic the Second for the improvement of his dominions . Among other articles , he informs us that he has rebuilt or founded 539 villages and hamlets in his ...
... Royal Academy at Berlin , gives an account of all the means employed by Frederic the Second for the improvement of his dominions . Among other articles , he informs us that he has rebuilt or founded 539 villages and hamlets in his ...
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... royal birth . Bred in the school of " Potzdam , under the severe and continual inspection of the king his uncle , he has practised the 66 most implicit obedience . Early taught to defend the crown , which is one day to descend to him ...
... royal birth . Bred in the school of " Potzdam , under the severe and continual inspection of the king his uncle , he has practised the 66 most implicit obedience . Early taught to defend the crown , which is one day to descend to him ...
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... royal brother upon the autho- rity of Mr. Wraxall . " In many particulars of their life and disposition , even in their very " defects , the similarity between the two brothers is striking . Like Frederic , prince Henry is " destitute ...
... royal brother upon the autho- rity of Mr. Wraxall . " In many particulars of their life and disposition , even in their very " defects , the similarity between the two brothers is striking . Like Frederic , prince Henry is " destitute ...
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Page 131 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lulled with sounds of sweetest melody?
Page 132 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king...
Page 547 - The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.
Page 549 - In every case, after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vice-president. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the senate shall choose from them by ballot the vice-president.]* The congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 45 - Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Page 132 - With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 544 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever...
Page 132 - ... Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That with the hurly death itself awakes...
Page 499 - Majesty (conformably to the sentiments which he has already declared), to meet any disposition to negotiate on the part of the enemy, with an earnest desire to give it the fullest and speediest effect...
Page 547 - ... years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. The Vice-President of the United States shall be president of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.