A History of Germany: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time

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D. Appleton, 1852 - 487
 

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Strona 1 - FREDERICK KOHLRAUSCH, Chief of the. Board of Education for the Kingdom of Hanover^ and late Professor of History in the Polytechnic School. Translated from the last German edition, By JAMES D. HAAS.
Strona 3 - has been to produce a succinct and connected development of the vivid and eventful course of our country's history, written in a style calculated to excite the interest and sympathy of my readers, and of such especially who, not seeking to enter upon a very profound study of the sources and more elaborate works connected with the annals of our empire, are nevertheless anxious to have presented to them the means of acquiring an accurate knowledge of the records of our Fatherland, in such a form as...
Strona 3 - ... reality a concise, yet, in every respect, a complete history of Germany. It is important to remark, that Professor Kohlrausch is a Protestant, and one distin...
Strona 3 - Polytechnic School. Translated from the -last German edition, BY JAMES D. HAAS. One elegant 8vo. volume, of 500 pages, with complete Index, $1 50. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. The high merits and distinguished character of the original German Work, by Professor Kohlrausch, of which this is a translation, have long been acknowledged. A work which, during a period of thirty years, has enjoyed so much popularity as to have gone through several editions, embracing a circulation of many thousand copies ; a...
Strona 3 - That our industrious historian has attained his object, the intelligent reader will find in the interest excited, the clear views imparted, and the deep impres sion effected by his animated portrayals of both events and individuals. This has been the original and acknowledged characteristic of Herr...
Strona 202 - I herewith curse his flesh and blood, and may his body never receive burial, but may it be borne away by the wind, and may the ravens and crows and wild birds of prey consume and destroy him. And I adjudge his neck to the rope, and his body to be devoured by the birds and beasts of the air, sea, and land; but his soul I commend to our dear Lord God, if he will receive it.
Strona 149 - ... his subjects from their allegiance, and urging the princes of Germany to elect a new emperor, in these words, " In behalf of Almighty God the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, I deny to Henry the government of the whole realm of Germany and Italy, and release all Christians from the bond of the oath which they have made or will make to him, and forbid any one to serve him as if he were a king.
Strona 317 - Bohemia m arms, and threatening Vienna itself with invasion ; Silesia and Moravia in alliance with them ; Austria much disposed to unite with them ; Hungary by no means firmly attached, and externally menaced by the Turks ; besides which, encountering in every direction the hatred of the Protestants, against whom his zeal was undisguised.
Strona 172 - ... Germany, and with a bleeding heart he was obliged to overpower his own son by force, take him prisoner, and place him in confinement in Apulia, where, seven years afterwards, he died. Upon this occasion, Frederick held, in 1235, a grand diet at Mainz, where sixty-four princes and about twelve thousand nobles and knights were present. Here written laws were made relative to the peace of the country, and other regulations adopted, which showed the empire the prudence of its emperor. Before the...
Strona 148 - ... governed by two lights — by the sun, which is greater, and by the moon, which is less. The apostolic power is the sun ; the royal power, the moon. For as the latter has its light from the former, so do emperors, and kings, and princes, receive power through the Pope, who receives it from God.

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