The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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... King Frederick I. of Prussia , the title being taken from that part of his 1 1 Strictly speaking , the title assumed was " king in Prussia " ( König in Preussen ) , this apparently being meant to indicate that there was still a Prussia ...
... King Frederick I. of Prussia , the title being taken from that part of his 1 1 Strictly speaking , the title assumed was " king in Prussia " ( König in Preussen ) , this apparently being meant to indicate that there was still a Prussia ...
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... king of Prussia . The Swedes were driven from Pomerania , and at the peace of 1720 Frederick William received the greater part of Vorpom- mern , including the important seaport of Stettin . Sweden now disappeared from the ranks of the ...
... king of Prussia . The Swedes were driven from Pomerania , and at the peace of 1720 Frederick William received the greater part of Vorpom- mern , including the important seaport of Stettin . Sweden now disappeared from the ranks of the ...
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... king's first acts was to abolish legal torture , and he rarely sanctioned capital punishment except in cases of murder . The application of the privilegium de non appellando ( 1746 ) freed Prussia from all relations with the imperial ...
... king's first acts was to abolish legal torture , and he rarely sanctioned capital punishment except in cases of murder . The application of the privilegium de non appellando ( 1746 ) freed Prussia from all relations with the imperial ...
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... king seemed disposed to fulfil his promise of departments and the machinery of provincial government , 1815 and grant the country a constitution , but ultimately and practically established the system now in force . In both he and his ...
... king seemed disposed to fulfil his promise of departments and the machinery of provincial government , 1815 and grant the country a constitution , but ultimately and practically established the system now in force . In both he and his ...
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... king of Prussia became the German emperor . The united Germany that Frederick the Great had sought in the Fürstenbund , that Frederick William III . had tried to organize in 1806 in opposition to the Confederation of the Rhine , that ...
... king of Prussia became the German emperor . The united Germany that Frederick the Great had sought in the Fürstenbund , that Frederick William III . had tried to organize in 1806 in opposition to the Confederation of the Rhine , that ...
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