This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...army." The manners of these dreadful times in France, during the factions of the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, and the reign of Louis the Eleventh, may be seen in Brantome; and more conveniently in Wraxall's Memoirs of the House of Valois. LECTURE VIII. SPAIN, GERMANY, ITALY, SWITZERLAND. In my last lecture, I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...army." The manners of these dreadful times in France, during the factions of the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, and the reign of Louis the Eleventh, may be seen in Brantome; and more conveniently in Wraxall's Memoirs of the House of Valois. LECTURE VIII. SPAIN, GERMANY, ITALY, SWITZERLAND. In my last lecture, I endeavoured to call your attention to the constitutional history of France. I did so, because this is one of the first objects of importance in the history of Europe, from the effects which that great kingdom has always been fitted, from its situation and natural advantages, to produce upon every other. Such must always have been the influence of its arms and its example, that it is not too much to say, that the history of the civilized world would have been changed, and most favorably changed, if France had not lost its constitutional liberties, and sunk into an arbitrary monarchy. But the same subject is of great interest to ourselves, from the illustration which it affords of the merits and the good fortune of our ancestors. This island lost not its liberties in like manner, because it retained its public assemblies, and because they retained the right of taxation. How, therefore, or why, arose this difference in the fate of the two kingdoms? It is this question that I am so anxious that you should bear along with you in your thoughts, while you read the annals of every other country of Europe; and, the more strongly to impress it on your minds, I pointed out to you, in my last lecture, a very remarkable epoch in the French history, during which, there was evidently some great effort made for the constitution of France, by the members of the States-General, and particularly by the third estate, and by Marcel and the Parisians. I next alluded...
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