A Political History of Contemporary Europe, Since 1814

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William Heinemann, 1904 - 880 頁

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第 235 頁 - I swear to observe the constitution and the laws of the Belgian people, to maintain the national independence and the integrity of the territory.
第 161 頁 - Ledru-Rollin 370,000) and took possession of the executive power — swearing to " remain faithful to the democratic Republic and to defend the Constitution " ; he chose a parliamentary ministry formed chiefly of Liberal Orleanists and Catholics.
第 453 頁 - Empire is the result of the policy of blood and iron as carried out by Prussia in three wars which were crowded into the brief period of six years, the war with Denmark in 1864, with Austria in 1866, and with France in 1870, the last two of which were largely the result of his will and his diplomatic ingenuity and unscrupulousness, and the first of which he exploited consummately for the advantage of Prussia.
第 35 頁 - Nay, he, on his own part, would go further, and say that he had never read or heard of any measure up to the present moment which could in any degree satisfy his mind that the state of the representation could be improved or be rendered more satisfactory to the country at large than at the present moment.
第 35 頁 - ... of the country. I will go still further, and say, that if, at the present moment, I had imposed upon me the duty of forming a legislature for any country, and particularly for a country like this, in possession of great property of various descriptions, I do not mean to assert that I...
第 610 頁 - The contracting powers recognise the high value of this communication. It is clearly understood that it cannot, in any case, give to the said powers the right to interfere, either collectively or separately, in the relations of his majesty the Sultan with his subjects, nor in the internal administration of his empire.
第 490 頁 - You are now my soldiers. You have given yourselves to me, body and soul. There is now but one enemy for you, and that is my enemy.
第 50 頁 - The policy of the new Ministry was defined by its chief in his address to the electors of Tamworth. Sir Robert Peel said he considered the Reform Act a final and irrevocable settlement of a great constitutional question...
第 811 頁 - However, the issue of the lost provinces had still larger bearings, important for all the world. A calm-minded Frenchman stated the issue as seen by his nation thus : "It is produced by an irreconcilable opposition between two conflicting conceptions of right; sovereignty of government by right of conquest — the principle of the German monarchy; sovereignty of the people, whence arises the right of every population to determine its nationality — the principle of French democracy." In 1884 the...
第 155 頁 - Republic is the government of France," and, on March 5, promised to convoke an assembly elected by universal suffrage to draw up a constitution. As in 1830, the revolution made in Paris was passively accepted by the rest of the nation. J. Simon thus sums up the revolution: "The agitation, set on foot by certain Liberals, resulted in the republic which they dreaded, and at the last moment universal suffrage, set on foot by certain Republicans, resulted in promoting the cause of socialism, which they...

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