Excerpt from A Sketch of the Politics, Relations, and Statistics, of the Western World HE next power whose state I shall consider is France. Beautiful France is next to England in commerce and manufactures; in every thing else that can make a nation rich and glorious she is far before her rival. She stands at this moment renewing her enormous strength, and in creasing it by vast additions, occupied almost solely in these patriotic pursuits, and in reconciling herself to the rest of Europe, after the misfortunes of her ...
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Excerpt from A Sketch of the Politics, Relations, and Statistics, of the Western World HE next power whose state I shall consider is France. Beautiful France is next to England in commerce and manufactures; in every thing else that can make a nation rich and glorious she is far before her rival. She stands at this moment renewing her enormous strength, and in creasing it by vast additions, occupied almost solely in these patriotic pursuits, and in reconciling herself to the rest of Europe, after the misfortunes of her revolution, at which none is more shocked than herself; after her triumphant and magnificent career under the consular and imperial regimes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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