The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
258 Chapter XI The Estates of Brabant, for example, met at the Hotel de Ville in Brussels. Though they voted as three houses, th ...
Democrats and Aristocrats 259 factures, eager to break the gild regulations, hire an enlarged work force, or set up domestic ind ...
260 Chapter XI volt. He tried to free the port of Antwerp, and sent a loaded cargo vessel down the Scheldt, only to have it fire ...
Democrats and Aristocrats 261 against our will.” Church bodies and town corporations, because they also owned manors, could have ...
262 Chapter XI Resistance to the Austrians concentrated about two men, H. Van der Noot and J. F. Vonck. Both were lawyers of the ...
Democrats and Aristocrats 263 Most of them thought that the main leader of the Belgian Revolution was Van der Noot, operating in ...
264 Chapter XI classes anyway; he would have favored a respectable diplomatic intervention by foreign powers. Those of the other ...
Democrats and Aristocrats 265 invited the estates of other provinces to send delegates to a conference. The confer- ence met and ...
266 Chapter XI the wealthy Duke of Arenberg. As a group the democrats were not anti- Catholic, nor even anticlerical; there were ...
Democrats and Aristocrats 267 monarch and limit the rights and authority of the latter. The sovereign who does not respect this ...
268 Chapter XI people, led by their priests, poured into Brussels from the villages of Brabant. Some 20,000 arrived from a dozen ...
Democrats and Aristocrats 269 enlightened men in the country.”^55 But she thought he should not trust them. Im- mediately after ...
270 Chapter XI tryside. More will be said when the time comes to consider the Helvetic Republic of 1798. It is enough here to ob ...
Democrats and Aristocrats 271 and General Councils, was again raised, as in 1766. The Small Council and the Négatifs again appea ...
272 Chapter XI Aristocracy was resurgent at Geneva after 1782, but its enjoyments were to be brief, for there was more trouble i ...
Democrats and Aristocrats 273 Early in his life he came to share in the generous and humanitarian sentiments of his time. His do ...
274 Chapter XI rights of man. Here at Basel, he said, our basic statute starts out by talking about the office of burgomaster, a ...
Democrats and Aristocrats 275 in England and Ireland in the preceding chapter. I have tried to hold the story, so far, short of ...
276 Chapter XI expected to create a new system of government to supersede that of the past. No one supposed that government must ...
Democrats and Aristocrats 277 their Brunswick Manifesto. The Belgian Van der Noot, rather than stir up the Belgian people, worke ...
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