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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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with this, for the sun of an abiding felicity is shiningupon us. In truth, Charles, in the first years of his government, zealouslyparticipated in affairs, and showed that he was inspired by good pur-poses. In Hungary especially he followed the principles of hisdeceased brother, and sought to win the people by kindness and anupright and constitutional course of action. He committed the ad-ministration of that country to native citizens, and treated the Pro-testants with such mildness that they were gradually reconciled tothe Hapsburg rule. But the emperor soon found participation inpublic business quite too laborious. He no longer took pains toarrive at an independent judgment. It was altogether a result of thisintellectual indolence that if an idea had once been made acceptableto him by anyone, he could not afterward be diverted from it. Ob-stinacy and want of judgment sprang uji in the emperor from theKan:e root. This narrow stubbornness, and this irritating conscious- 50 PLATE IV.
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Emperop Charles VI.From a copper-plate engraving (1728) by Andreas and Joseph 8chmutzer (1700-1741). History o) All Xaliimi, Vol. XI I., page SO. TUE TlEKS AAl) TUE VENETIANS. 61 ness of his own inadequacy, produced in turn the passionate precipita-tion ^vith which he pursued j^lans hastily formed, immature, andaltogether pernicious. In the years that followed the conclusion of the Peace of Rastattand Baden, he at first allowed Prince Eugene, apart from questionsthat concerned Spain and Italy, to do as he liked. The prince man-aged the foreign policy of Austria with the same success which hehad liitherto obtained as a warrior and diplomatist. Eugene hopedthat the notches his victorious sword had received in his conflictswith ViUars could most easily and profitably be ground off inattacking the declining Turkish realm. At this time (1703 to 1730) Achmet III. ruled over that empire.The beginning of his rule had not been without merit. He hadimproved the S3-stem of taxation and the army,

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