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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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meant an increase of taxes tothe amount of 5,000,000 thalers. There was still lacking only theconstitution. Difficulties existed with regard to it; and they weremanifested in considering the iirst principles of a constitution, of theregulation of the commiuie and the circle,— such as the vast multi-plicity of local rights in various towns, the great diveisity betweenthe circumstances of the eastern and the western provinces; but thesewould not have been insujMrablc had there been good will on allsides. The opponents of the constitution availed themselves ofHardenbercjs absence during- the congress at i^aibach, in order toeffect the rejection of all the projects thus far, and the summoning ofa new, the fifth, commission, under the presidency of the crown-))rince (Fig. 4), who hated Hardenberges ideas, and despised hisconduct. A fortunate event, the death of the chancellor, occurringat Geneva on November 20, 1822. anticipated his dismissal. 40 THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE NATIONAL HOPES.
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