History of the State of New York, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from History of the State of New York, Vol. 2 The year sixteen hundred and sixty-four found the strongest powers of Europe on the brink of a fierce war. That war determined the fate of New York. In France, Louis the Fourteenth was pushing up to its pinnacle the idea of absolute monarchy. The king was himself the state. Laborious and untiring, Louis had the rare faculty of choosing well his subordinates. Colbert became his minister of finance; Lionne, of foreign affairs; Louvois, of war. Conde, Luxembourg, and Turenne, his victorious generals, earned him bloody renown. The French king was a devout son of the Roman Church. But, above all other characteristics, he had the instinct of grandeur and the thirst for glory. "There is stuff enough in him," said Mazarin, "to make four kings and an honest man." If Louis was not the greatest sovereign, he was "the best actor of majesty that ever filled a throne." More than any other monarch, he had "the marvellous art of reigning." Supreme in France, he wished to sway all Europe, and to that end he directed his subtile diplomacy. He soon established a control over the half French king of England. With the United Netherlands he made a treaty of alliance. But the system of bribery by which Louis succeeded almost every where else, failed when it was used against the chief servants of the Dutch Republic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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