History of Europe: From the Fall of Napoleon, in 1815, to the Accession of Louis Napoleon, in 1852, Volume 2W. Blackwood and sons, 1853 - Europe |
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... hundred years ago , of nearly a million of its most industrious and orderly citizens , de- prived Spain - as a similar measure , at a later period , did France of the most useful and valuable portion of its inhabitants , and with them ...
... hundred years ago , of nearly a million of its most industrious and orderly citizens , de- prived Spain - as a similar measure , at a later period , did France of the most useful and valuable portion of its inhabitants , and with them ...
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... hundred years of almost incessant combats . These combats were not , for a very long period , the battles of great armies against each other , but the ceaseless conflicts of small forces or guerilla bands , among whom success and defeat ...
... hundred years of almost incessant combats . These combats were not , for a very long period , the battles of great armies against each other , but the ceaseless conflicts of small forces or guerilla bands , among whom success and defeat ...
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... hundred thousand citizens in Madrid , Cadiz , Corunna , and Barcelona , rich , compara- tively educated , free - thinking , and engaged in the pursuit of pleasure ; on the other , twelve millions of peasants in the country , hardy ...
... hundred thousand citizens in Madrid , Cadiz , Corunna , and Barcelona , rich , compara- tively educated , free - thinking , and engaged in the pursuit of pleasure ; on the other , twelve millions of peasants in the country , hardy ...
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... hundred thousand inha- bitants , while the generality had not more than thirty or forty thousand , the democratic section of the community was not a twentieth part of the immense mass of the rural population . But from their position in ...
... hundred thousand inha- bitants , while the generality had not more than thirty or forty thousand , the democratic section of the community was not a twentieth part of the immense mass of the rural population . But from their position in ...
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... hundred thousand priests , doomed to celi- bacy in a country suffering under the want of hands , and capable of maintaining , with ease and comfort , at least double its number of inhabitants , were diffused over its whole extent , and ...
... hundred thousand priests , doomed to celi- bacy in a country suffering under the want of hands , and capable of maintaining , with ease and comfort , at least double its number of inhabitants , were diffused over its whole extent , and ...
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Page 717 - It would be disingenuous, indeed, not to admit that the entry of the French army into Spain was, in a certain sense, a disparagement — an affront to the pride— a blow to the feelings of England...
Page 467 - ... from the roots and the stem of the tree. Save that country, that you may continue to adorn it; save the Crown, which is in jeopardy, the aristocracy, which is shaken; save the altar, which must stagger with the blow that rends its kindred throne!
Page 717 - I have already said that, when the French army entered Spain we might, if we chose, have resisted or resented that measure by war. But were there no other means than war for restoring the balance of power? Is the balance of power a fixed and unalterable standard?
Page 717 - Spain might be rendered harmless in rival hands, — harmless as regarded us, and valueless to the possessors ? might not compensation for disparagement be obtained, and the policy of our ancestors vindicated, by means better adapted to the present time ? If France occupied Spain, was it necessary, in order to avoid the consequences of that occupation, that we should blockade Cadiz? No: I looked another way; I sought materials of compensation in another hemisphere. Contemplating Spain such as our...
Page 467 - Save the country, my lords, from the horrors of this catastrophe ; save yourselves from this peril ; rescue that country of which you are the ornaments, but in which you can flourish no longer, when severed from the people, than the blossom when cut off from the roots and the stem of the tree.
Page 398 - The Prince Regent has the greatest pleasure in being able to inform you, that the trade, commerce, and manufactures of the country are in a most flourishing condition. " The favourable change which has so rapidly taken place in the internal circumstances of the United Kingdom, affords the strongest proof of the solidity of its resources. " To cultivate and improve the advantages of our present situation will be the object of your deliberations...
Page 637 - ... opinion, that to animadvert upon the internal transactions of an independent state, unless such transactions affect the essential interests of his Majesty's subjects, is inconsistent with those principles on which his Majesty has invariably acted on all questions relating to the internal concerns of other countries ; that such animadversions, if made, must involve his Majesty in serious responsibility, if they should produce any effect ; and must irritate, if they should not...