Essays on Italy and Ireland, and the United States of America ...Trübner & Company, 1868 - 336 pages |
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... France ? If France did not do all she promised in 1859 , she yet did much . To speak plainly , we are still too near those unequal contests , sustained by Poland and Denmark abandoned to their fate , to give an English- man the right to ...
... France ? If France did not do all she promised in 1859 , she yet did much . To speak plainly , we are still too near those unequal contests , sustained by Poland and Denmark abandoned to their fate , to give an English- man the right to ...
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... France . The Congress of Vienna but re - enacted the selfsame injustice when it permitted . Austria to seize again upon Venetia in 1815. More- over it must not be forgotten that the Austrian and English generals , when they sought in ...
... France . The Congress of Vienna but re - enacted the selfsame injustice when it permitted . Austria to seize again upon Venetia in 1815. More- over it must not be forgotten that the Austrian and English generals , when they sought in ...
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... France has had in bringing about that result . Doubtless she did not intervene in the war of 1859 , declared by Austria against Piedmont , in order to form a single nation out of the different states of which Italy was composed . France ...
... France has had in bringing about that result . Doubtless she did not intervene in the war of 1859 , declared by Austria against Piedmont , in order to form a single nation out of the different states of which Italy was composed . France ...
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... France had given in 1859 only the aid of words and despatches , the effects of which were made manifest in the case of Poland and of Denmark ? If that only had been done , would not Italy still mourn to - day as Poland mourns ? Would ...
... France had given in 1859 only the aid of words and despatches , the effects of which were made manifest in the case of Poland and of Denmark ? If that only had been done , would not Italy still mourn to - day as Poland mourns ? Would ...
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... patriotism and wisdom of Italian statesmen , and not a little upon the policy of France . --Your obedient servant , " A. H. L. " ITALY , VENICE , AND AUSTRIA . * Reprinted from MILAN AND VENICE SINCE THE WAR OF 1859. 41.
... patriotism and wisdom of Italian statesmen , and not a little upon the policy of France . --Your obedient servant , " A. H. L. " ITALY , VENICE , AND AUSTRIA . * Reprinted from MILAN AND VENICE SINCE THE WAR OF 1859. 41.
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