The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 5The University Press, 1908 - History, Modern |
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... death of the Emperor and the accession to the Imperial throne of the Austrian claimant of the Spanish inheritance , once more modified the situation , the principle of a re - established “ bal- ance " underlay all the negotiations which ...
... death of the Emperor and the accession to the Imperial throne of the Austrian claimant of the Spanish inheritance , once more modified the situation , the principle of a re - established “ bal- ance " underlay all the negotiations which ...
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... Death of James II 275 276 277 The Land Bank Political influence of the Bank . The Press Privy Council committees . The executive and the legislature Death of William III . His political action in England Results of the Revolution ...
... Death of James II 275 276 277 The Land Bank Political influence of the Bank . The Press Privy Council committees . The executive and the legislature Death of William III . His political action in England Results of the Revolution ...
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... Death of Peter the Great 544 545 546 547 548 • Accession of Catharine I Hostility between Russia and Great Britain Death of Catharine I. Accession of Peter II The domination of Menshikoff The supremacy of the Dolgorukis Austro - Russian ...
... Death of Peter the Great 544 545 546 547 548 • Accession of Catharine I Hostility between Russia and Great Britain Death of Catharine I. Accession of Peter II The domination of Menshikoff The supremacy of the Dolgorukis Austro - Russian ...
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... death Louis XIV was twenty - three years old . His character was as yet little known . If Mazarin had not kept the sovereign in ignorance , he had certainly kept him in the background ; and hence it was that Louis XIV's declaration ...
... death Louis XIV was twenty - three years old . His character was as yet little known . If Mazarin had not kept the sovereign in ignorance , he had certainly kept him in the background ; and hence it was that Louis XIV's declaration ...
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... death Colbert had suffered from gout , and this decision seems to have overwhelmed him . He died in September , 1683 , almost in disgrace . It was the supreme misfortune of France that Louis XIV , with all his great qualities of ...
... death Colbert had suffered from gout , and this decision seems to have overwhelmed him . He died in September , 1683 , almost in disgrace . It was the supreme misfortune of France that Louis XIV , with all his great qualities of ...
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Page 713 - that every particle of matter attracts every other particle, and suspected that the attraction varied as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between them; but it is certain that he did not then know what the attraction of a spherical mass
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