"Bourbonism" Quotes from Famous Books
... known, or as good as known, to be virtually some Family Compact, or covenanted Brotherhood of Bourbonism, French and Spanish: political people quake to ask themselves, "How will the French keep out of this War, if it continue any length of time? And in that case, how will Austria, Europe at large? Jenkins's Ear will have kindled the Universe, not the Spanish Main only, and we shall be at ... — History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle |