The Quarterly Review, Volume 212William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1910 |
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Page 181
... Cantons on the Lake of Luzern entered into the Perpetual Alliance which was the starting - point of the Swiss Confederation . But Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden were democracies for many previous centuries . In fact they had never been ...
... Cantons on the Lake of Luzern entered into the Perpetual Alliance which was the starting - point of the Swiss Confederation . But Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden were democracies for many previous centuries . In fact they had never been ...
Page 182
... Cantons , as elsewhere in the Holy Roman Empire , of which they formed part , and throughout Europe ; but the inborn love of freedom , the old tradition of liberty , survived in spite of it . Proprietorship in the soil assumed a more ...
... Cantons , as elsewhere in the Holy Roman Empire , of which they formed part , and throughout Europe ; but the inborn love of freedom , the old tradition of liberty , survived in spite of it . Proprietorship in the soil assumed a more ...
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... Cantons should be settled by arbitration , the decision of the arbitrator being , if necessary , enforced ; and that in case of an attack upon any one of the three Cantons , by any Power , the other two Cantons should come to its aid ...
... Cantons should be settled by arbitration , the decision of the arbitrator being , if necessary , enforced ; and that in case of an attack upon any one of the three Cantons , by any Power , the other two Cantons should come to its aid ...
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... Cantons free from the overlordship of the Dukes of Austria . In 1332 Luzern sought and obtained admission to the Confederation , in 1351 Zürich , in 1352 Glarus and Zug , and in 1353 Bern . This Confederation of eight Cantons received ...
... Cantons free from the overlordship of the Dukes of Austria . In 1332 Luzern sought and obtained admission to the Confederation , in 1351 Zürich , in 1352 Glarus and Zug , and in 1353 Bern . This Confederation of eight Cantons received ...
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... Cantons ; still , the Confederation steadily advanced in power and prestige . But as that century drew to a close , Switzerland passed through a very critical crisis . Jealousies had sprung up between the democratic Forest States ...
... Cantons ; still , the Confederation steadily advanced in power and prestige . But as that century drew to a close , Switzerland passed through a very critical crisis . Jealousies had sprung up between the democratic Forest States ...
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