... manoeuvres persuaded Emperor Napoleon III to remain neutral, playing on his want of land for France, and then by the signing of a treaty with Italy that would commit Austria to fighting on two front in the almost inevitable event of ... , including a constitution that excluded Austria. The fact that Austria agreed to have no further influence in Germany was a significant reason for the future unification of the States, It allowed Prussia to dominate and removed the, hitherto impeding, factor of Austria's opposition to formal unity. In ... removal, Prussia annexed 6 smaller states includi...

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Gibbon was born in 1737, a young man of delicate health and fairly good fortune; he had a partial and interrupted education at Oxford, and then he completed his studies in Geneva; on the whole his outlook was French and cosmopolitan rather than British, and he was much under the intellectual influence of that great Frenchman who is best known under the name of Voltaire (Francois ... in which they lived, the ! system of monarchy, of leisurely and privileged gentlefolk_s, of rather despised industrial and trading people and of downtrodden and negligible laborers, and poor and common people, see...

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