The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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... position in secular matters . So too the introduction of Roman law accustomed the mind to dwell on the central authority and administration , and its very terminology promoted the conception of the elector as a " royal " ruler . A more ...
... position in secular matters . So too the introduction of Roman law accustomed the mind to dwell on the central authority and administration , and its very terminology promoted the conception of the elector as a " royal " ruler . A more ...
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... position , and the ranks of the noblesse were recruited by grants to German knights . Numerous towns and villages were built ; the place of the greatly thinned Prussians was taken by industrious German colonists ; agriculture and ...
... position , and the ranks of the noblesse were recruited by grants to German knights . Numerous towns and villages were built ; the place of the greatly thinned Prussians was taken by industrious German colonists ; agriculture and ...
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... position on the Baltic , and he had offered a steady and not ineffectual resistance to the ambition of France . " contri- While thus winning for himself a position in the councils of Europe , the elector was not less active in ...
... position on the Baltic , and he had offered a steady and not ineffectual resistance to the ambition of France . " contri- While thus winning for himself a position in the councils of Europe , the elector was not less active in ...
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... position and duties made him his own first minister in the widest and most exacting sense of the term . He endeavoured to spare his subjects as far as was compatible with the immense army he maintained , and sought to raise the ...
... position and duties made him his own first minister in the widest and most exacting sense of the term . He endeavoured to spare his subjects as far as was compatible with the immense army he maintained , and sought to raise the ...
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... position demanded . He was too undecided to grasp the opportunity of adding to Prussia's power by adhering to the vigorous external policy of his predecessor , nor did he on the other hand make any attempt to meet the growing discontent ...
... position demanded . He was too undecided to grasp the opportunity of adding to Prussia's power by adhering to the vigorous external policy of his predecessor , nor did he on the other hand make any attempt to meet the growing discontent ...
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