Excerpt from The New American Cyclopaedia, Vol. 6: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge; Cough-Education Ness of ceremonial which had existed under the old regime. The precedence of diplomatic agents and others at court is determined partly by the relative rank of states, important republics, as the United States and Switzerland, receiving the same honors as kingdoms; and partly by the degree of relationship to the sovereign, since nearly all the European dynasties are united to each other by family ties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.