Excerpt from Joseph II The political system established by Kaunitz was strong enough to resist even the unsatisfactory results of the Seven Years' War. Adhesion, to the Bourbon alliance, and hostility to Prussia, remained the keynotes of the foreign policy of Maria Theresa and her minister. But a very important change had been worked upon the mind 'of the empress. The arguments by which Kaunitz supported his system, as he developed the thesis that, small though its success had been, the results of any other arrangement ...
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Excerpt from Joseph II The political system established by Kaunitz was strong enough to resist even the unsatisfactory results of the Seven Years' War. Adhesion, to the Bourbon alliance, and hostility to Prussia, remained the keynotes of the foreign policy of Maria Theresa and her minister. But a very important change had been worked upon the mind 'of the empress. The arguments by which Kaunitz supported his system, as he developed the thesis that, small though its success had been, the results of any other arrangement would have been far more disastrous, appeared to her unanswerable. The assertions of amicable policy which followed the Peace of Huberts burg may be safely regarded as the mere conventional expressions of diplomacy, there was no friendliness in her heart. She still saw in the Prussian king the wicked and godless upstart who was devoting all the evil craft and energy of his character to the subversion of the legitimate pre-eminence of the Austrian House. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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