The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... less , remained the enemy - a heretic and unmonarchic state , the leader of Europe against Louis XIV , the patron of ... less been waged to solve . Austria , it was clear , survived , and Prussia had made good her bold intrusion into the ...
... less , remained the enemy - a heretic and unmonarchic state , the leader of Europe against Louis XIV , the patron of ... less been waged to solve . Austria , it was clear , survived , and Prussia had made good her bold intrusion into the ...
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... less , had the best of reasons for the " absurd peevishness " with which they placed the eventual recovery of Silesia before all other objects . Silesia had been the Habsburgs ' best province . Its loss not merely damaged their prestige ...
... less , had the best of reasons for the " absurd peevishness " with which they placed the eventual recovery of Silesia before all other objects . Silesia had been the Habsburgs ' best province . Its loss not merely damaged their prestige ...
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... less to calculation than to instinct - the national instinct to deal gener- ously , at least in the early stages , with our associate in a struggle against France . Nothing was less expected from a proud and in- tractable statesman who ...
... less to calculation than to instinct - the national instinct to deal gener- ously , at least in the early stages , with our associate in a struggle against France . Nothing was less expected from a proud and in- tractable statesman who ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 22 |
The Newfoundland Fishery | 29 |
The Western Adventurers | 35 |
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