Outlines of Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Present TimeBrewer and Tileston, 1853 |
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Outlines of Universal History from the Creation of the World to the Present Time Georg Weber,Francis Bowen Visualização integral - 1853 |
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Página 354 - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Página 470 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Página 354 - ... crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born. In fifteen years, ie in 1776, he grew up to manhood and declared himself free.
Página 3 - States are divided into republican and monarchical, according to the form of their government or constitution. A state is called a monarchy, when a single person stands at the head and manages its affairs. This single person is called Emperor, or King, Duke, or Prince, according to the extent of his dominions. The term, Free State, or Republic, is given to that form of government in which the supreme power is placed in the hands of an elective body, composed of numerous members. The republican form...
Página 387 - Letters," he attacked with the same wanton scorn as Voltaire the faith of the Church, and the whole form and system of government in France, and in the same way, by wit and irony, turned the customs and social position of his contemporaries into ridicule. In his ingenious treatise " On the Causes of the Greatness and the Decline of the Romans," he tried to prove that patriotism and self-reliance rendered a state great, but that despotism brought it to destruction. His third work, " On the Spirit...
Página 405 - Tell your master that we sit here by the power of the people, and that we are only to be driven out by the bayonet ! " The weak king did not venture to encounter this resolute resistance by force, but rather advised the nobility and clergy to join the citizens. § 543. THE STORMING OF THE BASTILLE.
Página 369 - Men imagined they saw in him a sage of antiquity, come back to give austere lessons and generous examples to the moderns. They personified in him the republic, of which he was the representative and the legislator.
Página 95 - ... deprived of one of her finest frontier provinces and left open to the French invader, against whom the petty princes of Southern Germany being, consequently, unprotected, they fell, in course of time, under the influence of their powerful neighbour. At Osnabriick, peace was concluded with Sweden, which was indemnified for the expenses of the war by the payment of five million...
Página 351 - ... undisciplined and half famished levies that formed the greater part of the French army, fled hastily after a few vollies, and were pursued with great execution to the gates of the city. Montcalm and Wolfe both fell on the field, morSeptember 18, tally wounded. Quebec surrendered in less than a week, 1759. , and the war in North America was virtually at an end, though Montreal was not taken by the English till the following year. A capitulation was then signed by the French governor-general, which...
Página 591 - Faith) by the desire of his Holiness and of the Most Eminent Lords, Cardinals of this supreme and universal Inquisition, the two propositions of the stability of the sun, and the motion of the earth, were qualified by the Theological Qualifiers as follows: 1.