Italy: from the Fall of Napoleon I., in 1815, to the Year 1890Cassell, limited, 1891 - 312 pages |
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Page 302 - Ahi serva Italia, di dolore ostello, Nave senza nocchiero in gran tempesta, Non donna di provincie, ma bordello.
Page 197 - Our country, though small in territory, has acquired credit in the councils of Europe because it is great by the ideas it represents and by the sympathies it inspires.
Page xvi - Peoples of Italy, the French army comes to break your chains ; the French people is the friend of all peoples.
Page 197 - Our country, small in territory, has acquired credit in the Councils of Europe because she is great in the idea she represents, in the sympathy she inspires.
Page 228 - Her Majesty's Government can see no sufficient ground for the severe censure with which Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia have visited the acts of the King of Sardinia. Her Majesty's Government will turn their eyes rather to the gratifying prospect of a people building up the edifice of their liberties, and consolidating the work of their independence, amid the sympathies and good wishes of Europe.
Page 273 - Catholic institutions founded for the education and culture of ecclesiastics, shall continue to depend only on the Holy See, without any interference of the scholastic authorities of the kingdom. PART II. RELATIONS OF THE STATE WITH THE CHURCH. ART. XIV. — Every special restriction of the exercise of the right of meeting on the part of the members of the Catholic clergy is abolished. ART. XV. — The Government renounces its right of apostolic legateship (legazia...
Page 274 - the destination of ecclesiastical property, and the provision of the major and minor benefices," the royal " exequatur " and " placet " is to remain in force " until such time as it may be otherwise provided in the special law of which Article XVIII. speaks.
Page 13 - Neapolitan revolution of 1820 and while proceeding against that of Piedmont in 1821, says — " Public opinion is absolutely diseased, and since a single fact is sufficient to prove this, I will mention the state of our own capital. Be sure that at Vienna, as at Paris, Berlin, London, as in the whole of Germany, Italy, and Russia, as well as America, our triumphs are rated as so many crimes, our conceptions as so many errors, and our views as criminal follies.
Page 198 - Governments ; for an agreement was made by which the Emperor Napoleon promised to give armed assistance to Piedmont if she were attacked by Austria. The result, in case the allies were successful, was to be the formation of a northern kingdom of Italy, described as one possessed of about eleven millions of inhabitants. This agreement was not made public, but was signed on the 18th January, 1859, by Prince Napoleon and General (afterwards Marshal) Niel, on the part of the Emperor of the French, and...
Page 132 - It is all dressed with banners. The tricolor surmounts the palace of the senator; the senator himself has fled. The deputies mount the steps, and one of them reads in a clear friendly voice the following words: "FUNDAMENTAL DECREE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY OF ROME "ART.