A General History of the World, Bind 3Review of Reviews Company, 1912 |
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Side 485 - ... and recognizes only such as are personal. It places every man on his own two feet, and says to him, Be a man, and you shall be esteemed according to your worth as a man ; you shall be commended only for your personal merits ; you shall be made to suffer only for your personal demerits. To each one according to his capacity, to each capacity according to its works.
Side 585 - The North German Parliament, in unison with the Princes of Germany, approaches with the prayer that your Majesty will deign to consecrate the work of unification by accepting the Imperial Crown of Germany. The Teutonic Crown on the head of your Majesty will inaugurate, for the re-established Empire of the German nation, an era of power, of peace, of well-being, and of liberty, secured under the protection of the laws.
Side 461 - He alone to whom belongs by right the power, for in Him alone are to be found all the treasures of love, of knowledge and of infinite wisdom, that is to say God, our Divine Saviour Jesus Christ, the word of the Most High, the word of life.
Side 461 - They solemnly declare that the present Act has no other object than to publish in the face of the whole world their fixed resolution, both in the administration of their respective States and in their political relations with every other Government, to take for their sole guide the precepts of that Holy Religion, namely the precepts of Justice, Christian Charity and Peace...
Side 465 - ... to secure the internal peace of Italy, imposing on them an obligation to preserve their states and respective subjects from fresh re-actions, and from the danger of imprudent innovations, which might be the forerunners of them, it is understood by the high-contracting powers, that his majesty the king of the Two Sicilies, in re-establishing the government of the kingdom, will not admit any changes irreconcileable either with ancient monarchical institutions, or with the principles adopted by...
Side 584 - Germany as she pleased. Prussia added to her territory Hanover, despite the protests of Great Britain, the electorate of Hesse, Nassau, the free city of Frankfort, Schleswig-Holstein and certain smaller territories to facilitate her internal communications. Upon the states of southern Germany, Bavaria, Wiirtemberg and Baden, she imposed treaties of offensive and defensive alliance, and was also guaranteed the command of their armies in case of war. These treaties however were to be kept profoundly...
Side 599 - GERMAN EMPIRE (1871-1901) The Imperial Constitution. — The constitution was promulgated on April 16, 1871, in the name of the king of Prussia, as head of the North German Confederation, of the kings of Bavaria and Wurtemberg and the Grand Dukes of Baden and Hesse. It was thus granted by five accordant princes and not wrought out in a constitutional assembly. It formed the code of twenty-six distinct states now all united under the iron rule of the Hohenzollerns and submitted to the same rigid discipline...
Side 606 - Italy was never darker and her outlook upon the future more discouraging than in the summer of 1850. The revolutionary war of 1848, that had swept over the country from the lagoons of Venice to the extremities of Sicily, had receded, and left nothing but defeat and disappointment behind. Italy at that time comprised the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the States of the Church, the grand duchy of Tuscany, the duchies of Parma and Modena, the LombardoVenetian territory and the kingdom of Piedmont or Sardinia.
Side 461 - Christian nationality ; the three allied princes themselves only considering themselves as delegated by Providence to govern three branches of one and the same family...
Side 545 - the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are not to be considered as subjects for colonization by European powers." Further on he points out that the people of the United States have kept aloof from European dissensions, and ask only in return that North and South America should be equally let alone. " We should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous...