A Handbook of European History: 476-1871, Chronologically ArrangedMacmillan, 1897 - 383 pages |
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Page 296 - Olney differs widely from its character when it first issued from the pen of its author. The two propositions which in effect President Monroe laid down were, first, that America was no longer to be looked upon as a field for European colonization...
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Page 379 - July 1048, res. ; deposed 1044, and restored on death of Silvester III ; sold the papacy to Gregory VI ; restored again on death of Clement II.
Page 375 - Philip V Ferdinand VI Charles III Charles IV Ferdinand VII Joseph Bonaparte Ferdinand VII (restored...
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Page 238 - Russia (April 11) to guarantee the existing constitutions of Poland and Sweden, to control the election to the Polish throne, and to protect the Polish Dissidents.