 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 340 pages
...commencement of this prosecution, fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent states by one dash of the pen. Three or four still...many respects one of the most interesting parts of the ancient system of Europe. Unfortunately for the repose of mankind, great states are compelled,... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 322 pages
...commencement of this prosecution, fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent states by one dash of the pen. Three or four still...many respects one of the most interesting parts of the ancient system of Europe. Unfortunately for the repose of mankind, great states are compelled,... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 408 pages
...commencement of this prosecution, fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent States by one dash of the pen. Three or four still...many respects one of the most interesting parts of the ancient system of Europe. Unfortunately for the repose of mankind, great States are compelled,... | |
 | William Lamartine Snyder - 1901 - 776 pages
...commencement of this prosecution, fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent States by one dash of the pen. Three or four still...States, whose unmerited fall I do most bitterly deplore. 3. REASONS FOR THE TEMPORARY TOLERATION OF A FREE PRESS IN THE MINOR EUROPEAN STATES. These governments... | |
 | Bernard William Kelly - 1921 - 174 pages
...commencement of this prosecution fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent States by one dash of the pen. Three or four still...States whose unmerited fall I do most bitterly deplore. . . . One asylum of free discussion is still inviolate. There is still one spot in Europe where man... | |
 | Mark Salber Phillips - 2000 - 390 pages
...of discussion in the middling and smaller states of the old Europe. "These Governments," he writes, "were in many respects one of the most interesting parts of the antient system of Europe" (85). Exempted themselves from a desire for domination and free to cultivate literature and reason,... | |
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In Holland, in Switzerland, in the imperial towns of Germany, the press was either legally or practically free. Holland and Switzerland are no more ; and since the commencement of this prosecution, fifty imperial towns have been erased from the list of... 
