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ESSAYS ON MODERN HISTORY


Monumenta, of Balan, on Clement VII., 427

Morality, relativity of, to the age denied,

Morals, effect of, on society limited to individuals (Buckle), 306 Mordaunt, on Charles II. 's change of faith, 88-9 Moreau, 409 More, Hannah, early influence of, on George Eliot, 277 More, 436 Sir Thomas, 21, 436 on the Lutherans, 30 his theory and practice of persecution, , 64 private and public views of, on Henry's Divorce, 30-31 Mosaic laws on marriage, learning of, on Henry VII. 's Divorce, 32 Moscow, retreat to, attempts to dis- cover projector of, 366 Mosheim, 332 Mozley, J. L. , historical style of, esti- mated by Creighton, 436 Miiller, Johannes, suggestions given by, to Bain, 287 Introduction to the Science of Mytho- logy* by, 352 Munich, home of Giesebrecht, 499 Murder, Buckle's fallacious notions re- garding statistics of, 316 difficulty of distinguishing from kill- ing, 191 invaluable as basis of historical measurement, 494-95 as justified by unenlightened con- science of the sixteenth century, 64 political, occasional expediency of, Morse Stephen's view of, 494 Musetola, 42 Musset, Alfred de, poem of, on Dante,

Myers, tribute to George Eliot's power, 3°3 Names of those believing in the justice of Henry VIII. 's Divorce, 18, 28-9 Naples, the blockade of, by Lautrec, 39 crown of, offered to Pescara, 12 Napoleon I., 371, 442-58 admitted practice by, of diplomatic douceurs, 398 boyhood of, Prokesch on, 446 character of, 454-58 Seeley's estimate of, 445-6 ; pas- sionate temper of, 412 ; Talley- rand's explanation of, 404-5 correspondence of, forgery in, 363 defect in his generalship, 444 definition by, of history, 455 divorce of, and second marriage, 445 ; Egyptian expedition, Monge on, S fall of, 393, 412 and the invasion of England, 451-2 military genius of, Talleyrand's ap- preciation of, 410 miscalculation by, of English navy,

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motive power of, 444 records of, difficult to get, 442 revealed by Talleyrand's Memoirs,

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Spanish policy of, Talleyrand's objec- tion to, 399 urged by hopeless destiny, 443 wars of, in Austria, 440-45, 452 ; in Russia, 448-9, 457 ; in Spain, . 457 and Mass6na, end of revolutionary war hindered by, 483 Napoleon III. and his Austrian alliance, 209 et seq. and Cavour, 181, 182 the Orsini bomb, 190 ; and its political consequences, 194-7 and the Franco- Prussian War, reasons of, for opposing Prince Leopold, 231 ; and his own candidate for Spanish crown, 230 ; forces com- manded by, result of their un- readiness, 240 ; disposition of, end of July, and during the war, 241 et seq. ; at Metz, 243 ; sur- renders the command to Bazaine, and ceases to count in the war, 243 ; his surrender, at Sedan, 246 ; not the cause of the war of 1870, according to Sybel, 205, but see 213-25, 227; the incon- venient moment of the war, 217 ; on the solution of the war problem — pro tem., 221 ; position of, as affected by publication of the treaty as to Belgium, 239 his illness and its historical conse- quences, 207, 212-13, 227 and Mexico, recall of his army, reasons for, 205 ; rejects the Doblado Convention, and sends troops to Mexico, 151 ; his scheme for regenerating the Latin world its first step, 15 1-3 ; his support to Maximilian, 154 ; suggested quid pro quo refused, 157 ; other terms accepted, id. ; the promised French alliance, id. ;