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Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ake as the guide of theirconduct, wäthin their dominions as well as without, only the preceptsof the Christian religion, of righteousness, love, and peace, in accord-ance with Holy Scripture, which commands all men to treat oneanother as brothers, to remain united by the bonds of a true andindissoluble brotherhood ; to consider themselves, mth respect totheir subjects and armies, as fathers of a family; and as the represen-tatives of Providence, to rule as three members of one family, therebyacknowledging that a Christian people in truth has no other sove-reign than Him to whom alone power belongs. The reception which this remarkable document found from thetwo allies corresponded in no respect to the ecstatic sentiment of itsauthor. The least difficulty was made by King Frederick WilUam,out of personal friendship for the emperor, and because he could notdo without him as a friend to his exhausted state, encompassed byenemies and envious people. More hesitating was the Emperor PLATE I
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