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Page 118 - Maart 1856 luidende als volgt : «s'il survenait , entre la Sublime Porte et l'une ou plusieurs des autres puissances signataires un dissentiment qui menacat le maintien de leurs relations, la Sublime Porte et chacune de ces puissances, avant de recourir a l'emploi de la force, mettront les autres parties contractantes en mesure de prévenir cette extrémité par leur actionmédiatrice...
Page 301 - True religion undoubtedly leads us to do to others as we would that they should do to us.
Page 120 - Messieurs les plenipotentiaires n'hesitent pas a exprimer, au nom de leurs gouvernements, le voeu que les fitats entre lesquels s'eleverait un dissentiment serieux, avant d'en appeler aux armes, eussent recours, en tant que les circonstances 1'admettraient, aux bons offices d'une puissance amie.
Page vi - Free-trade conceptions in their usual forms, thanks to compromises brought about by economical stagnation and false Ideas on the part of the State, were incapable, as proved by facts, of overcoming national antagonism. When the question is set on a wider base, then the symptoms of a better future will appear. No single effort, not even the initiative of powerful State authority, can produce observable results. Only when all Government activity In legal and Independent kingdoms is full of the consciousness...
Page 471 - Report on a visit to Germany, with a view of ascertaining the recent progress of technical education In that country, being a letter to the Lord President of the Council.
Page 357 - Forty-three per cent of the men and 59 per cent of the women employed in Education are over the age of fifty; the corresponding figures for university teachers as a whole are 18 and 26 per cent respectively.
Page 80 - Projet de traite pour rendre la paix perpetuelle entre les souverains chretiens, pour maintenir toujours le commerce libre entre les nations, pour affermir beaucoup d'avantage les maisons souveraines sur le tröne.
Page 45 - Austrian history was the war of 1859, between the French and Sardinians on the one side, and the Austrians on the other.
Page 357 - In 1861, of those over nineteen years of age, 65 per cent, of the males and 81 per cent, of the females...