The Historians' History of the World: Germanic empires (concluded)

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Henry Smith Williams
Outlook Company, 1904

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Side 323 - Europe were to be committed, was convoked at Vienna. At this congress, which, in the November of 1814, was opened at Vienna, the emperors of Austria and Russia, the kings of Prussia, Denmark, Bavaria, Wurtemberg...
Side 594 - Ordinance the existing condition of villainage of those villains with their wives and children who possess their peasant-holdings by hereditary tenures of whatever kind ceases entirely both with its rights and duties. § XII. From Martinmas, 1810, ceases all villainage in Our entire States. From Martinmas, 1810, there shall be only free persons, as this is already the case upon the Domains in all Our provinces ; free persons, however, still subject, as a matter of course, to all the obligations which...
Side 601 - Each state bordering on the rivers is to be at the expense of keeping in good repair the towing paths which pass through its territory, and of maintaining the necessary works through the same extent in the channels of the river, in order that no obstacle may be experienced to the navigation.
Side 541 - I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, And in his word do I hope.
Side 600 - The Powers whose states are separated or crossed by the same navigable river, engage to regulate, by common consent, all that regards its navigation. For this purpose they will name Commissioners, who shall assemble, at latest, within six months after the termination of the Congress, and who shall adopt, as the basis of their proceedings, the principles established by the following articles.
Side 601 - Duties, the number of which shall be reduced as much as possible, shall be determined upon in the above Regulation, and no change shall afterwards be made, but by common consent, unless any of the States bordering on the Rivers should wish to diminish the number of those which exclusively belong to the same.
Side 601 - Tariff shall, however, be prepared in such a manner as to encourage commerce by facilitating navigation; for which purpose the Duties established upon the Rhine, and now in force on that River, may serve as an approximating rule for its construction. The Tariff...
Side 574 - I say to thee that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven ; and whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven ; and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven.
Side 596 - Prussia, for all their possessions which anciently belonged to the German Empire ; The King of Denmark, for the Duchy of Holstein ; And the King of the Netherlands, for the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg ; establish among themselves a perpetual Confederation, which shall be called ' The Germanic Confederation '-1 Object of this Confederation.
Side 156 - A man that seeks truth and loves it, must be reckoned precious in any human society ; and I think you will make a conquest in the realm of truth if you persuade Wolf hither again.

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