Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801, Band 17

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Isaac Collins and sons, 1804
 

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Seite 144 - It consisted only of six rooms, four of them in the form of friars' cells, with naked walls ; the other two, each twenty feet square, were hung with brown cloth, and furnished in the most simple manner.
Seite 253 - Massena, occupied Switzerland and the left bank of the Rhine, almost from its source to the western extremity of the lake of Constance, and from that point, the two banks of the river as far as Basle. Between that town and Dusseldorf were stationed about sixty-five thousand men, commanded by general Jourdain, and forming what was called the army of Mentz.
Seite 46 - On this he retired, and put on his royal ornaments ; then returning to the apartment he had left, and seating himself on a chair of state, he renewed his remonstrance in these words : " Here are the marks of " that royalty with which we were invested by God and " the princes of the empire ; if you disregard the wrath " of Heaven, and the eternal reproach of mankind, so " much as to lay violent hands on your sovereign, you " may strip us of them. We are not in a condition to
Seite 124 - Imperial sceptre must be committed to some hand more powerful than mine, or that of any other German prince. We possess neither dominions, nor revenues, nor authority, which enable us to encounter such a formidable enemy. Recourse must be had in this exigency to one of the rival monarchs.
Seite 252 - Istria, Dalmatia, with all the Venetian Islands in the Adriatic, lying to the northwest of the. gulf of Lodrino, the city of Venice, with a large portion of the dominions of that republic, chiefly those lying between the Tyrol, the lake of Guarda, and the Adriatic. Besides these public articles, there was a secret convention, by which it appears the dismemberment of the Venetian territories...
Seite 125 - Each of them can bring into the field forces sufficient for our defence. But as the king of Spain is of German extraction ; as he is a member and prince of the empire by the territories which...
Seite 251 - Zante, Cephalonia, and all their other isles in the Adriatic, together with their settlements in Albania, situated...
Seite 238 - European powers. ; and a conference was held at Pilnitz between the emperor, the king of Prussia, and the elector of Saxony.
Seite 312 - HI. king of Prussia, in which it was stipulated, that the elector of Bavaria, together with the imperial crown, should possess Bohemia, Upper Austria, and the county of Tirol ; that Augustus III. king of Poland and elector of Saxony, should be gratified with Moravia and Upper Silesia ; and that his Prussian majesty should retain Lower Silesia, with the town of Neiss and the county of Glatz.

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