HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. BY GEORGE BANCROFT. VOL. V. ŽOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1852, by GEORGE BANCROFT, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern CONTENTS. Protestantism ceases to be a cause of Revolutions, 3-Right of private judgment affirmed, 4-Progress of Skepticism, 5-Prussia and its king, 6– Russia, 8-Austria, 10-The German Empire, 11-The Netherlands, 13— THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE-FRANCE, 1763. France, 19-Checks on the royal power, 20-Parliament, 21-Opinion, 21-Voltaire, 22-Montesquieu, 24-The Physiocrats, 25-Turgot, 26-Jean England, 32-Its limited Monarchy, 33—Its Church, 34-House of Lords, 36-House of Commons, 39-Its Administrative System, 43-Its Literature, 44-Its Courts of Law, 47-Its system of Education, 48-Life in towns, 50— -Life in the country, 51-Its manufactures, 54-Its nationality, 56. A * |