History of the Thirty Years' War, Complete: History of the Revolt of the Netherlands to the Confederacy of the Gueux |
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... Union . - The League . - Death of the Emperor Rodolph . - Matthias succeeds him . - Trou- bles in Bohemia . - Civil War . - Ferdinand extirpates the Protestant Re- ligion from Styria . - The Elector Palatine , Frederick V. , is chosen ...
... Union . - The League . - Death of the Emperor Rodolph . - Matthias succeeds him . - Trou- bles in Bohemia . - Civil War . - Ferdinand extirpates the Protestant Re- ligion from Styria . - The Elector Palatine , Frederick V. , is chosen ...
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... union among the nations of Europe . Fearful indeed , and destructive , was the first movement in which this general political sympathy announced itself ; a desolating war of thirty years , which , from the interior of Bohemia to the ...
... union among the nations of Europe . Fearful indeed , and destructive , was the first movement in which this general political sympathy announced itself ; a desolating war of thirty years , which , from the interior of Bohemia to the ...
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... union which he had not with his own country- men . Thus , in one important particular , he ceased to be the citizen of a single state , and to confine his views and sympa- thies to his own country alone . The sphere of his views be ...
... union which he had not with his own country- men . Thus , in one important particular , he ceased to be the citizen of a single state , and to confine his views and sympa- thies to his own country alone . The sphere of his views be ...
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... union between the two confessions . Then only , when this last attempt should have failed , was the religious treaty to become valid and conclusive . However little hope there might be of such a reconciliation , however little perhaps ...
... union between the two confessions . Then only , when this last attempt should have failed , was the religious treaty to become valid and conclusive . However little hope there might be of such a reconciliation , however little perhaps ...
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... union for the Protestants ; but not content with this , they sought a rallying point in the promulgation of a new and positive creed , in which they sought to embody the distinctions , the privileges , and the essence of the church ...
... union for the Protestants ; but not content with this , they sought a rallying point in the promulgation of a new and positive creed , in which they sought to embody the distinctions , the privileges , and the essence of the church ...
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