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Page 91 - the idea confined to them. Self-preservation taught other powers to adopt it. It grew to be fashionable and universal. From this era we can trace the progress of that intercourse between nations which has linked the powers of Europe so closely together, and can discern the operations of that
Page 89 - action, was an equal match for a monarch who ruled over such extensive territories, and was at the head of such a martial people; but that a confederacy might accomplish what the separate members of it durst not attempt.
Page 90 - the theatre, and amidst the hostile operations which the imprudence of Louis XII. and the ambition of Ferdinand of Aragon carried on in that country, with little interruption from the close of the fifteenth century to
Page 90 - extended on this occasion to the affairs of Europe the maxims of that political science which had hitherto been applied only to regulate the operations of the petty states in
Page 90 - general liberty, and had manifested the importance of attending to that great secret in modern policy, the preservation of a proper distribution of power among all
Page 77 - like mercy, is twice blessed, it blesses him that gives and him that takes.
Page 76 - that he called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. In
Page 90 - a proper balance of power between the contending parties, became the great object of attention to the statesmen of Italy.
Page 90 - own country. They had discovered the method of preventing any monarch from rising to such a degree of