Contemporary History of the WorldT. Y. Crowell, 1899 - 173 страница |
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Страница 154 - A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe that this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
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Страница 87 - To put an end to these incessant armaments and to seek the means of warding off the calamities which are threatening the whole world — such is the supreme duty which is today imposed on all States.
Страница iii - Outlines the most prominent political events in Europe and North America during the last fifty years.
Страница 36 - The North German parliament, in unison with the princes of Germany, approaches with the prayer that your Majesty will deign to consecrate the work of unification by accepting the imperial crown of Germany.
Страница 152 - Buchanan, Mason, and Soule, the American ministers to Great Britain, France, and Spain, met at Ostend to consult as to the measures necessary for its acquisition (1854).
Страница 135 - Washington to five arbitrators, to be appointed by the President of the United States, the Queen of Great Britain, the King of Italy, the President of the Swiss Confederation and the Emperor of Brazil.
Страница 114 - ... the Amendments to the American Constitution. The political life of the nation has since been summed up in the application and extension of its organic charter. The Federal Assembly, exercising legislative functions, has taken the place of the ancient powerless Diet. The executive power is centred in a Federal Council of seven members, elected by the Federal Assembly for three years. This Federal Assembly is modelled after the American Congress. It consists of a State Council, wherein two deputies...
Страница iv - ... clergy, was pre-existent and inherited; the other, the nobility, developed from the clients of the Germanic chieftains, was new. Between and beside these two castes, which possessed their special culture, it was very difficult for the main exponent of the new culture to rise. This was the city, which, for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire, united and represented all branches of culture. After the twelfth century, it even took art out of the hands of the hierarchy, for the great...