Recent European History, 1789-1900

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B.H. Sanborn, 1902 - 459 Seiten
 

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Seite 348 - form an eternal union for the protection of the realm and the care of the welfare of the German people.
Seite 333 - ... the German people to enjoy in lasting peace the reward of its arduous and heroic struggles within boundaries which will give to the Fatherland that security against renewed French attacks which it has lacked for centuries. " May God grant to us and our successors to the Imperial Crown, that we may be the defenders of the German Empire at all times, not in martial conquests, but in works of peace in the sphere of national prosperity, freedom, and civilization.
Seite 106 - VII, à neuf heures du soir, le gouvernement autrichien a fait assassiner par ses troupes les ministres de la République française, Bonnier, Roberjot et Jean De Bry, chargés par le Directoire exécutif de négocier la paix au Congrès de Rastadt.
Seite 183 - ... my office and your vocation, and firmly resolved to treat that recognition faithfully under all circumstances, I have appeared among you, and addressed you with royal freedom. With the same openness, and as the highest proof of my confidence in you, I here give you my royal word that I should not have called you together had I had the smallest suspicion that you would otherwise understand your duties, or that you had any desire to play the part of what are called representatives of the people.
Seite 361 - ... has been warmly reciprocated by myself. " It has given me unbounded pleasure to see so many of my subjects from all parts of the world assembled here, and to find them joining in the acclamations of loyal devotion to myself, and I would wish to thank them all from the depth of my grateful heart. " I shall ever pray God to bless them and to enable me still to discharge my duties for their welfare as long as life lasts.
Seite 73 - Mountaineers, had been all alike dispatched to execution. But it did not proceed expeditiously enough to satisfy the systematic exterminators, who wished promptly, and at any cost, to get rid of all their prisoners. It still observed some forms ; these were suppressed.
Seite 73 - All tardiness," said Couthon, "is a crime, all indulgent formality a public danger; there should be no longer delay in punishing the enemies of the state than suffices to recognise them.
Seite 348 - Bundesrath, or Federal Council, in which body, together with the Reichstag, or Diet of the Realm, are vested the legislative functions of the Empire. The Bundesrath represents the individual states of Germany, and the Reichstag the German nation. The...
Seite 193 - Declaration, passed the House of Commons but was rejected by the House of Lords, and so the matter stands.
Seite 183 - Noble lords and trusty Orders, I am forced to the solemn declaration that no power on earth will ever succeed in moving me to change the natural — and, in our own case, so imperatively necessary — relation between prince and people, into something merely conventional or constitutional; and that, once for all, I will never suffer a written...

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