...Richelieu and Mazarin. She became of France, tv by the war the first military power in Europe. By the peace she was planted securely upon the Rhine and acquired...Philipsburg, but an incentive to future exertion, and a spur to criminal ambition, in the desire to make her hold upon the Rhine but the beginning of...

...she was planted securely upon the Rhine and acquirednot merely a scientific frontier for offence_anc[ defence in the virgin fortress of Metz, the mountains...Breisach and Philipsburg, but an incentive to future exertion,_ and a spur to criminal arirbftiori, in the desire to make her hold upon the Rhine _b~ut_the"beginning...