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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
eign of seventy-two years, to die alone. He had sought to extend his Sept 1. power beyond his life by establishing a council of regency; but the will was cancelled by the parliament, and his nephew, the brave, generous, but abandoned Philip of Orleans, became absolute regent. In the event of the early death of Louis XV., who should inherit the throne of France? By the treaty of Utrecht, Philip of Anjou, accepting the crown of Spain, renounced the right of succession to that of France. If the treaty were maintained, Philip of Orleans was heir-apparent; if legitimacy could sustain the necessary succession of the nearest prince, the renunciation of the king of Spain was invalid, and the integrity of his right unimpaired. Thus the personal interest of the absolute regent in France was opposed to the rigid doctrine of legitimacy, and sought an alliance with England; while the king of Spain, under the guidance of Alberoni, was moved not less by nereditary attachment to legitimacy th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., O. (search)
O. Oglethorpe, James, III. 418. Treats with the Indians, 421. Visits the Highland emigrants, 431. Besieges St. Augustine, 443. His character, 446. Ohio, the French on the, III. 343. Olive, Thomas, III. 50. Oneidas, II. 417. Onondagas, II. 417. Their magnanimity, 425. Jesuits among, III. 143. Orleans, Philip of, III. 323. Ottawas, III. 241. Oxenstiern colonizes Delaware, II. 285.