 ... for offence and defence in the virgin fortress of Metz, the mountains of the Vosges, and the strongholds of Breisach and Philipsburg, but an incentive to future exertion, and a spur to criminal ambition, in the desire to make her hold upon the Rhine...  Historical Geography on a Regional Basis - Stran 78avtor: Ernest Walter Dann - 1908Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1894 - 452 strani
...ambition, in the desire to make her hold upon the Rhine but the beginning of a vaster scheme of conquest. The damnosa hereditas of the Rhine frontier for France,...and the malignancy of its poison shows even now no signs of abatement. The great questions, which have agitated Europe during the years which have elapsed... | |
 | Henry Offley Wakeman - 1894 - 434 strani
...ambition, in the desire to make her hold upon the Rhine but the beginning of a vaster scheme of conquest. The damnosa hereditas of the Rhine frontier for France,...and the malignancy of its poison shows even now no signs of abatement. The great questions, which have agitated Europe during the years which have elapsed... | |
 | Henry Offley Wakeman - 1894 - 436 strani
...make her hold upon the Rhine but the beginning of a vaster scheme of conquest. The damnosa hcrcditas of the Rhine frontier for France, sanctioned in part...and the malignancy of its poison shows even now no signs of abatement. The great questions, which have agitated Europe during the years which have elapsed... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1915 - 312 strani
...Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIV. had given to France the damnosa herediias of the Rhine. That, they said, "has been the chief disturbing element in European...and the malignancy of its poison shows even now no signs of abatement." I am not going to discuss the sentence which I have just quoted, though I think... | |
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