 | 1804 - 552 sider
...commencement of this prosecution, fifty Imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent states, by one dash of the pen. Three or four still...preserve a precarious and trembling existence. I will not suy by what accomplices they must purchase its continuance. I will not insult the feebleness of states,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 sider
...commencement of this prosecution, fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent states, by one dash of the pen. Three or four still...many respects one of the most interesting parts of the ancient system of Europe. Unfortunately for the repose of mankind, great states are compelled,... | |
 | 1808 - 542 sider
...commencement of this prosecution, fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent states, by one dash of the pen. Three or four still...many respects one of the most interesting parts of the ancient system of Europe. Unfortunately, for the repose of mankind, great states are compelled,... | |
 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1810 - 516 sider
...commencement of this prosecution, fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent states, by one dash of the pen. Three or four still...continuance. I will not insult the feebleness of states of whose unmerited fall I do most bitterly deplore. " These governments were in many respects one of... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - 1820 - 738 sider
...commencement of this prosecution, fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent states, by one dash of the pen. Three or four still...many respects one of the most interesting parts of the ancient system of Europe. Unfortunately, for the repose of mankind, great stales are compelled,... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 sider
...commencement of this prosecution, fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent states, by one dash of the pen. Three or four still...many respects one of the most interesting parts of the ancient system of Europe. Unfortunately for the repose of mankind, great states are compelled,... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 468 sider
...commencement of this prosecution, fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent states, by one dash of the pen. Three or four still...many respects one of the most interesting parts of the ancient system of Europe. Unfortunately for the repose of mankind, great states are compelled,... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 464 sider
...imperial towns have been erased from the list of ir dependent states, by one dash of the pen. Three < four still preserve a precarious and trembling existence....many respects one of the most interesting parts of the ancient system of Europe. Unfortunately for the repose of mankind, great states are compelled,... | |
 | 1820 - 742 sider
...erased from the 'list of- independent states, by one dash of the pen. Three or four still prcterve a precarious and trembling existence. I will not say...insult the feebleness of states whose unmerited fall 1 do most bitterly deplore. These governments were in many respects one of the. most interesting parts... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 264 sider
...commencement of this prosecution, fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent states by one dash of the pen. Three or four still...many respects one of the most interesting parts of the ancient system of Europe. Unfortunately for the repose of mankind, great states are compelled,... | |
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In Holland, in Switzerland, in the imperial towns of Germany, the press was either legally or practically free. Holland and Switzerland are no more ; and since the commencement of this prosecution, fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of... 
