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A league formed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia to regulate the affairs of Europe “by the principles of Christian charity,”—meaning that each of the contracting parties was to keep all that the league assigned them (1816).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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