Prussia's Representative ManTrübner, 1875 - 466 pages |
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Adam Müller ancient answered appeared arms asked believe beneath Berlin Brandenburg breast brought called Capt castellan Castle Tronka chamberlain chancellor Count HOHENZ Count REUSS Count TRUCHSS dealer death despatched Dresden ELECTOR Elector of Brandenburg Elector of Saxony ELECTRESS empire England enquired Erlabrunn evil F. M. DÖRFLING feeling Fehrbellin fell follow force genius German Goethe GOLZ Greek hand heart Herse HOHENZOLLERN honour horse-dealer horses immediate individual Kleist knights Kohlhaas Kohlhaas's Kohlhaasenbrück KOTTWITZ labours lady letter look lord chancellor Lord Kunz Lord Wenzel Luther Lützen matter Meissen Michael Kohlhaas mind NATHALIA nation nature neighbours noble officers once poet poetry possessed present Prince of HOMBURG Prussia race replied SCENE seemed servant sire soldier sovereign SPARREN step sword thee things thou thought tion took triumph truth turned victory whole word write
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Page 299 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Page v - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 73 - ... fables in England concerning ghosts and spirits, and the feats they play in the night. And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power.
Page 147 - Les peuples des pays chauds sont timides comme les vieillards le sont; ceux des pays froids sont courageux comme le sont les jeunes gens.
Page 148 - Nous ne voyons point dans les histoires que les Romains se fissent mourir sans sujet : mais les Anglais se tuent sans qu'on puisse imaginer aucune raison qui les y détermine ; ils se tuent dans le sein même du bonheur.
Page 147 - Cette force plus grande doit produire bien des effets ; par exemple, plus de confiance en soi-même, c'est-à-dire plus de courage ; plus de connaissance de sa supériorité , c'est-àdire moins de désir de la vengeance ; plus d'opinion de sa sûreté, c'est-à-dire plus de franchise, moins de soupçons, de politique et de ruses; enfin cela doit faire des caractères bien differens.
Page 149 - Du climat. — De tout temps on a su combien le sol, les eaux, l'atmosphère, les vents, influent sur les végétaux, les animaux, et les hommes. On sait assez qu'un Basque est aussi différent d'un Lapon qu'un Allemand l'est d'un nègre, et qu'un coco l'est d'une nèfle. C'est à propos de l'influence du climat que Montesquieu examine, au chapitre xn du livre XIV, pourquoi les Anglais se tuent si délibérément. « C'est, dit-il, l'effet d'une maladie. Il ya apparence que c'est un défaut de filtration...
Page 299 - Which is the ladder to all high designs, Then enterprise is sick ! How could communities, Degrees in schools and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The...
Page 298 - Kohlhaas once more approached the scaffold, and, immediately after, his head fell beneath the axe of the executioner. Here ends the story of Kohlhaas. Amid the lamentations of the people, his body was placed in a coffin, and as the bearers were about to carry it out to a churchyard in the suburbs, the Elector called for the sons of the departed and dubbed them knights, telling the chancellor he would have them brought up among his own pages. Broken in body and mind, the Elector of Saxony soon after...
Page 173 - He was the son of a schoolmaster, and was distinguished as at once the most right-feeling and most terrible man of his time. Up to his thirtieth year, he might have been selected as the model of a perfect citizen. In the village in which he dwelt, and which still bears his name, he possessed a farm, from the produce of which, together with his business, he derived a tranquil subsistence; he had several children, whom he brought up in the fear of God and the love of diligence and truth; and there...