The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
298 Chapter XII said the Moravian count Poteani, was stirred up by agitators and outsiders. It was outrageous for revolutionary ...
Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 299 Three Charters of the North The problem in this book is not to give equal attention to ...
300 Chapter XII nation with an enlightened absolutism which was more favorable to the non- noble classes, and which won the prai ...
Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 301 among citizens, and he then read his Act of Union and Security, which the three “unrede ...
302 Chapter XII Meanwhile, a kind of revolutionary sentiment spread among the irritated nobil- ity of Sweden, many of whom, like ...
Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 303 acquired by service.”^30 Service meant the state service which had become an ob- ligati ...
304 Chapter XII The charter, besides promising such individual and family guarantees, set up the nobility as an organized and co ...
Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 305 The limitations of enlightened despotism are well seen in the famous Prussian General C ...
306 Chapter XII The Prussian code thus fell well short of any general conception of citizenship. The Prussian monarchy remained ...
CHAPTER XIII THE LESSONS OF POLAND What is the subject of any country? It makes no difference, slave black or white, he is a man ...
308 Chapter XIII emies within the state by sudden changes; don’t in your attempts at reform lose the liberties that you have.^1 ...
The Lessons of Poland 309 Dutch arrangements were diametrical opposites, for, in the United Netherlands even the patricians were ...
310 Chapter XIII reminder that race differences and slavery gave parts of America a resemblance to Eastern Europe. Persons count ...
The Lessons of Poland 311 thousands, that flocked in to do him honor and eat dinner in his country house, and might be rallied a ...
312 Chapter XIII tion, but force the dissolution of the diet itself. Forty- eight of fifty- five diets held between 1652 and 176 ...
The Lessons of Poland 313 almost all cavalry. Few taxes were raised. The revenues of the Republic in 1750 are said to have been ...
314 Chapter XIII very slow. Nevertheless, some nobles came more often into association with mer- chants, bankers, and other burg ...
The Lessons of Poland 315 vided international contacts, and various of King Stanislas’ reforming advisers, like the Swiss Glayre ...
316 Chapter XIII Letters, in which he demanded much the same radical changes as Staszic. On the basic requirements of a reviving ...
The Lessons of Poland 317 Radziwills, and the Czartoryskis; and it shaded off, as an incipient national party, into the ranks of ...
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