... iron, bound Germany together into a nation. The middle of the seventeenth, the middle of the eighteenth, and the middle of the nineteenth centuries, with the Great Elector, Frederick the Great, ... wear for the rest of his life, There it was that the essence of democracy was distilled. Democracy, Demos, the crowd, the people, the nation, were already, in the woods of Germany, the court ... resort. They growled dissent, and they gave assent with the brandishing of their weapons, javelins, or ballots. They were called together but seldom, and between the meetings of the assembly, the...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 04:20
... cold, they wheeled past, the horses sweating as they strained at the carriage shafts; the drivers, by deft handling, pulling the steeds clear of the ruts; out in front they swung, and the battalion ... slyly slipped it behind the back of the man next him, and in the space of three seconds the brisk Cockney had the forged permit of leave to show to the inspector. The men under the seat and on the racks were ... the station entrance. Some time ago the pickets allowed the men to see their sweethearts off, but as many youths abused the privilege and took train to London when they got on the platform, these...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu Germany from the Earliest Period Vol. 4 pptx
... their conversion." The French, it is true, neither murdered the inhabitants nor burned the villages as they had during the previous century in the Pfalz, but they pillaged the country to a greater ... against the sacred person of his Majesty the king, the destruction of the power of the privileged classes in Hungary, the subversion of the administration, and the establishment of a democracy. The ... documents in the handwriting of the elector. None were, however, discovered, the French envoys having either taken the precaution of destroying them or of committing them to the safe-keeping of the Prussian...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20
Retail Bank Interest Rate Pass-Through: The Turkish Experience pptx
... appreciation of the lira would not be enough to precipitate the 2000-2001 crises. They provide a plenty of evidence regarding the risk accumulation in the banking system in the period preceding the crisis: ... of the breaking collusive pricing arrangements of banks. The empirical literature on the interest rate pass through can be divided in to two groups based on the type of the data used. The ... relationship between the variables. The ADF test on the residuals based on the regression of money market rate and lending rate, and the money market rate and deposit rate, show that the residuals...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 02:20
Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View (1913) pptx
... in these days, the Germans are not at heart business men. There are more eyes with dreams in them in Germany than in all the world besides. They work hard, they increase their factories, their commerce, ... independence. In the one the Emperor is the father of the family — the Russian Emperor is still called "Little Father" — the independence of each member of the family is swallowed up in the complete ... $198,748,775 was the cost of the army; and $82,362,650 the cost of the navy, not counting the extraordinary expenditures for these two arms of the service, which amounted to $5,624,775 for the army, and...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus pptx
... protection. By these they were attended in battle; to these they retreated; and, these, if they were hard pressed, joined them in the combat. If any fell wounded from their horses, by these they were ... transacted under the conduct and direction of another, and the stress of the whole, as well as the glory of recovering the province, fell to the general's share, yet they imparted to the young ... with themselves, abstain from the embraces of the other sex. This request not being granted, they all strangled themselves the ensuing night." Lib. vi. 1.3. [115] Among the Heruli, the wife...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21
a companion to the roman army
... portray them as often at war then with their Latin and other neighbors. The profits of such wars will have been one of the sources of the wealth of sixth-century Rome: the tradi- tion that the great ... from the end of the century, the principal reason was the Romans’ own expansionism in southern Etruria and against the Volsci and the tensions which this caused for their relations with the Latins. 4 ... arrived in the Pomptine region in the early fifth century. How- ever, the tradition represents them as already present there in the time of the Roman kings, and we should accept its accuracy on the point....
Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 14:24
Bạn có muốn tìm thêm với từ khóa: