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Identifier: historyofallnati14wrig (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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104 THE NORTH OF EUROPE ABOUT THE YEAR 1725. of his family, and transformed all the kings private estates intopublic domains. The entire expenditures for the royal house, thecourt, and the castles, he limited to 102,000 thalers anuuallj-, — ata time when Louis XV. spent one-half of the revenues of Franceon himself, his pleasures, mistresses, and favorites; and when anAugustus the Strong displayed such la^^sh pomp at the expenseof the coimtry, that it was remarked he must have discovered theart of making gold. Frederick William thought that he was onlythe steward of the pubUc revenues. The personal element which,comhig down from the period of the )Middle Ages, still prevailedin royalty, he caused to give place instinctively to the idea of thestate. It may be said that the administrative policy of the Prussian state— which was completely wrought out and brought to noble resultsby Frederick II.—had been already created by his father. Theformer hfted it up, filled it with life, and,

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