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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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ance, and a persecutingspirit on the part of the clergy; the repression of all public enter-tainments and amusements, even the most innocent, as well as ofthe free expression of opinion, whether in speech or Avriting. Under Christians son and successor, Frederick V. (1746-1766),the painfully repressed reform movement asserted itself victoriously.Frederick was, without possessing pre-eminent abilities, a moderate,well-meaning, conscientious man, who tried to follow the course ofenlightened absolutism advocated by Voltaire and pursued by Fred-erick II. He abolished serfdom in all the royal demesnes, patronizedevery sort of material and intellectual industry among his people,founded academies and poor-houses, and lowered the taxes. Hemade a Hanoverian, Count Johann Hartwig von Bernstoi-ff, his primeminister. The coarse temperament of the Danes Bernstorff tried tomollify by attracting German scholars and poets to the capital. Inthis way he brought Klopstock to Copenhagen, where he resided
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