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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JOSEPH II. WRITTEN TO DISTINGUISHED PRINCES AND STATESMEN, VARIOUS INTERESTING SUBJECTS. MOW FIRST TRAN8LATFD FROM THE GERMAN, BXCHJSIVBL.Y FOR THE PAMPHLETEER. LONDON: The letters, of which we here give a translation, were re ccntly published in Germany, and excited great sensation They were communicated to the original publisher by an indi vidiial formerly attached to the person of the Emperor. The; are highly valuable, as forming materials for a future histor of this great monarch; the proper time for which is not ye come?partiality and passion not having yet subsided; am respect for many persons who were closely connected wit] him, and who arc still living, would doubtless influence tin historian. No one that reads these letters will lay them aside withou feeling a sincere esteem for their author. They are not onl; interesting on account of the light which they throw on variou points of history, but more particularly because they explaii what were the views and principles by which Joseph was ac tuated in his various undertakings. They are truly charac teristic letters, especially when we compare what Joseph ex ecnted with what he intended; when, with all his zeal for th public good, we see so many of his plans frustrated, ani when we recollect how this prince, who thought he had don every thing well, had the bitter mortification, towards the clos of his reign, to find that he had satisfied scarcely any portio of his subjects?that one called him a heretic, another tyrant, and that, finally, whole provinces and states revolte against him: so that only one conviction was left him, hi good intention; and one hope, his justification by posterity He himself confesses, in one of his letters, that these reflexion only could prevent the wish arising within him, n...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217100861 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217100864 |
| Weight | 2.09 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.45 In |
| List Price | $52.44 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 656 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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