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ESSAYS ON MODERN HISTORY


-4; devotion in last illness, -2 slow development, 274 sympathy with views of Comte, 283; Dante, 283; Goethe, 282, 283; Marlowe, 282; Milton, 282; Rousseau, 282; Georges Sand,

Shakespeare, 282, 283;

Shelley, 282; Wordsworth, 282 tribute by, to Lessing, 297-8 wide intellectual knowledge, 283; self - trained, 284; surpasses Spencer, 283 wide range of study, 276, 279, 281,

works, technical defects in, 284; no trace of religious movements of her times in, 294-5 '< m gh moral tone of novels, 291; translation of Feuerbach, 289; of Spinoza,

Elizabeth, Queen of England, precedent established by, 9; status of, as affected by the divorce, and by her non -submission to the Church, 46; on her mother's marriage, 45 Emancipation problems, as met in other lands, and in America, 140 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, belief of, in immediate retribution, 286 meeting of, with George Eliot,

startled by George Eliot's views,

cited on the course of human events,

cited on necessity, 315 Immigration to America, of what a sign,

Empire, the French, peril of, after Worth, 242 et seq.; after Sedan, 246; its downfall, flight of the Empress, 247-9 > ' ts one chance of restoration, 259 Empire and revolution, Giesebrecht's views on, 498 Ems affair, the, 222, 223, 230, 233, 486, 487; the famous telegram, 236; Ollivier's use of it, 237 Engels, 390 England, English, sec also British and United Kingdom attitude of, to Maximilian, Napoleon's error as to, 157 attitude to, of Cavour, 95, 178 Colonial history for one hundred years, Napoleon III. ' s deduc- tions, 152 as cat's-paw of Charles V., 7 history of, from Regency to Victoria, by Pauli, 380, 381 attitude of Napoleon I. to, and its effects on the expansion, 443; failure of invasion, views on,

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present age of, era of democracy in, 473; how reared, 179 religious movements in, 474 Talleyrand's unofficial missions to, 408; expulsion from, 408; return as plenipotentiary of Louis Philippe, 413 valuable works on, due to Roscher's initiative, 391 English alarm at Charles II. 's reported change of faith, 88-9 Catholics and Wolsey's share in the divorce, 59 divines, opinion of, on the divorce of Henry VIII., 18, 128-9 Government, the, and the war ot 1870, misconceptions and ignor- ance of, 218-19; its action a bad blunder, 221 historians, tribute to and acknow- ledgment of indebtedness to, by German writers, 385 laws and institutions, American adap- tations of, 129 et seq.; how these were evolved at home, 130 proposal as to German Emperor, 1867., 211 Ense, Varnhagen von, see Varnhagen Equality, American, 123-4; the exception, 136 Erasmus, Desiderius, and contemporary Papacy, 440 school of, views of, on the Divorce, 18, 29 Escobedo, takes Matamoros, 163 at the siege of Queretaro, 166-7, 169; his severity, 170; probably the author of Maximilian's execu- tion, 171 Established Church in England after the restoration, position of,

Este, Hercules, Prince of, 15 & note Eugene, Prince, life of, founded on his forged letters, 363, 364 Eugenie, Empress of the French, and the War of 1879., 2 °5< 2o8 > 213, 218, 225; important state- ments concerning, 219-20,

her refusal to abdicate, 248; her flight, 249 Bazaine's overtures to, and Bismarck's message, 259