Germany and France, a popular history of the Franco-German war, Volume 1; Volume 1831870 |
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Page 378 - side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee ; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another ; because thou knewcst not the time of thy visitation.
Page 378 - 41—' And when He was come near, He beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and
Page 302 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest.
Page 253 - twelve months after the ratification of any treaty of peace concluded between those parties; and on the expiration of that time the independence and neutrality of Belgium will, so far as the high contracting parties are respectively concerned, continue to rest as heretofore on the 1st article of the Quintuple Treaty of the
Page 253 - said Quintuple Treaty, their said Majesties have determined to conclude between themselves a separate treaty, which, without impairing or invalidating the conditions of the said Quintuple Treaty, shall be subsidiary and accessory to it; and they have accordingly named as their plenipotentiaries for that purpose, that is to say;
Page 223 - had been officially communicated to the Imperial French Government by the Royal Spanish Government, the French ambassador at Ems further demanded of His Majesty the King to authorize him to telegraph to Paris that His Majesty the King engages for all future time never again to give his consent if the
Page 253 - its observance, and to maintain, in conjunction with his Prussian Majesty, then and thereafter, the independence and neutrality of Belgium. " It is clearly understood that her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland does not engage herself by this treaty to take part in any of the general operations of
Page 88 - the future, there shall be lasting peace and friendship between His Majesty the King of Prussia and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, as well as between their heirs and descendants, their States and subjects.
Page 253 - Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the King of Prussia, being desirous at the present time of recording in a solemn act their fixed determination to maintain the independence and neutrality of Belgium, as provided in the seventh article of the treaty signed at London on the
Page 131 - agreed by common consent that the city of Luxemburg, considered in time past in a military point of view, as a Federal fortress, shall cease to be a fortified city. "His Majesty the King Grand Duke reserves to himself to maintain in that city the number of troops necessary to provide in it for the maintenance of good order. "ARTICLE