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Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e com-plete derangement of the state finances. The funded debt alone,altogether irrespective of the floating, mounted up to 35,000,000thalers. The Saxon army, that during the time of the Silesuui ^^a^had numbered 60,000 men, was now reduced to 20,000. The more unscrupulously Urülil plundered the state treasury, andtrod the public interests under foot, the more he felt himself calledon to play the part of a sanctimonious Pharisee. He took careto let himself often be come upon when on his knees in his privatechapel, and with liis own hand wrote a book with the edifying titleof The Sincere and Essential Godliness of all Christians. In thisthe scandalous scoundrel said : Our whole welfare consists in itsgoing ill -with us in this world. The deceptive goods of this earthare only for such peojik as liope for no better, and seek for no moregenuine ones. In regard to external policy, Saxony, after its two jmwerfulneighbors had fallen into a state of irreconcilable hostility, found PLATE XXV.
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Maria Theresa. From a copper-plate engraving by Philipp Andreas Kilian (1714-1759) of the paintingby Martin van Meytens (1698-1770). JliMory 0/ All yations. Vol. XIV, page S!5. AUSTBIA UNDER MARIA THERESA. 325 itself ill an exneniely critical situation. Therefore the vacillatingpolicy of Saxony is excusable, as it was for Savoy under the samecircumstances. The difference between these two minor stateswas this, — and here begins the culpability of the Saxon rulers,—that the Savoy princes, despite the sparseness of their means, madetheir alliance of value and their hostilit) formidable in virtue of astrong and well-disciplined army, while tlie Saxon Wettins, fromthe second half of the seventeenth century, enfeebled their landby squandering its resources on selfish indulgences, and so made itthe plaything of foreign powers. Brühl (Fig. .5-3) at first alliedhimself with Austria, then, after the battle of MoUwitz, with Prus-sia, to re-all)- himself, in 174-3, with Austria, to which he

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