ISBN: 1235815579

[EAN: 9781235815577], Neubuch, ROBERT FRANCIS OCONNOR,HISTORY, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can downl… Meer...

[EAN: 9781235815577], Neubuch, ROBERT FRANCIS OCONNOR,HISTORY, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: . . . leges, either in the expectation of more favorable circumstances or in altered views of its primary destination. But what lasted longer than the Militia itself was the idea of a reconciliation of ambitions and beliefs at the expense of the Turks. Powerless to arrest the course of events, it was not on that account less sincere or less widespread, and was shared by personages the most opposed, by Gustavus Adolphus as well as Tilly, by Waldstein as well as Maximilian. But nowhere do we find it more rooted or more constant than in Pere Joseph. Led by it to put his hand to the shaping of European policy, he found a compensating consolation for the struggle of France against Austria in the persuasion that the issue of that war would bring about the realization of the great design to which it was the principal obstacle. It is always idle to speculate on the hypothetical consequences of an event which did not take place, particularly when it is a question of a project like that of Pere Joseph and the Duke of Nevers, which did not ripen to a degree of maturity sufficient to enable one to appreciate its chances of success with some cer-1 tainty. One cannot, however, refrain from observing that if their enterprise had succeeded, it would probably have averted the Thirty Years War and solved or rather prevented the Eastern question. This already existed, but it was then born of the danger that overshadowed Europe, menaced by Turkey, in place of that which has long resulted from the weakness of the latter and the competitions it excites. 8 In place of Europe being rent asunder for thirty years by the worst of wars, a religious or quasireligious war, the peace of Europe would have been secured; European States, instead of being pitted against each other in deadly confli. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781235815577

His grey eminence; the true "Friar Joseph" of Bulwer Lytton's "Richelieu" a historical study of the Capuchin, PÃ"re Joseph Frano?is Le Clerc du Tremblay Robe… Meer...

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