 | Thomas Wright - 1848 - 488 Seiten
...forming an European confederacy against the former power, when new fuel was thrown into the flames by the death of the Emperor Charles VI., on the 20th of October, 1740. By the Pragmatic Sanction, guaranteed by all the great powers of Europe, the emperor was to be succeeded... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1848 - 488 Seiten
...forming an European confederacy against the former power, when new fuel was thrown into the flames by the death of the Emperor Charles VI., on the 20th of October, 1740. By the Pragmatic Sanc-tion, guaranteed by all the great powers of Europe, the emperor was to be succeeded... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1848 - 208 Seiten
...defeated by a majority of 253 to 186.* DEBATE ON TAKING THE HANOvERIAN TROOPS INTO BRITISH PAY. Upon the death of the Emperor Charles VI., on the 20th of October, 1740, without leaving male issue, his eldest daughter, Maria Theresa, succeeded to the inheritance of the... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1848 - 524 Seiten
...forming an European confederacy against the former power, when new fuel was thrown into the flames by the death of the Emperor Charles VI., on the 20th of October, 1740. By the Pragmatic Sanction, guaranteed by all the great powers of Europe, the emperor was to be succeeded... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 Seiten
...defeated by a majority of 253 to 186.* DEBATE ON TARING THE HANOVERIAN TROOPS INTO BRITISH PAY. Upon the death of the Emperor Charles VI., on the 20th of October, 1740, without leaving male issue, his eldest daughter, Maria Theresa, succeeded to the inheritance of the... | |
 | François Pierre G. Guizot - 1876 - 618 Seiten
...grave, and, after him, King Louis XV. and Madame de Pompadour. It was amidst this state of things that the death of the Emperor Charles VI. on the 20th of October, 1740, occurred to throw Europe into a new ferment of discord and war. Maria Theresa, the emperor's eldest... | |
 | François Guizot - 1879 - 726 Seiten
...Fleury had sufficed for the purpose. Frederick the Great. 469 It was amidst this state of things that the death of the Emperor ^ Charles VI. on the 20th of October, 1740, occurred to throw Europe Death of into a new ferment of discord and war. Maria Theresa, the emperor's... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1882 - 700 Seiten
...Floury had sufficed for the purpose. Frederick the Great. ' 469 It was amidst this state of things that the death of the Emperor Charles VI. on the 20th of October, 1740, occurred to throw Europe Death of into a new ferment of discord and war. Maria Theresa, the emperor's... | |
 | Guizot (M., François), Madame de Witt (Henriette Elizabeth) - 1885 - 470 Seiten
...grave, and after him, King Louis XV. and Madame de Pompadour. It was amidst this state of things that the death of the Emperor Charles VI. on the 20th of October, 1740, occurred to throw Europe into a new ferment of discord and war. Maria Theresa, the emperor's eldest... | |
 | François Guizot, Madame de Witt - 1898 - 416 Seiten
...grave, and after him, King Louis XV. and Madame de Pompadour. It was amidst this state of things that the death of the Emperor Charles VI. on the 20th of October, 1740, occurred to throw Europe into a new ferment of discord and war. Maria Theresa, the emperor's eldest... | |
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Frederick II., Maria Theresa, Lord Chatham, Catherine II., were about to appear upon the scene; the French had none to oppose them but Cardinal Fleury with one foot in the grave, and after him. King Louis XV. and Madame de Pompadour. It was amidst this... 