Historical Tales; the Romance of Reality, Volumen3J.B. Lippincott, 1893 - 344 páginas |
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Página 222 - Monk, monk ! thou art in a strait, the like of which myself and many leaders, in the most desperate battles, have never known. But if thy thoughts are just, and thou art sure of thy cause, go on in God's name, and be of good cheer, He will not forsake thee !
Página 142 - ... who were not subjected to give any account for what they did if only the terrific knife was present as evidence : what power, we repeat, did not this alliance command against the evil-minded, and what a powerful support and guarantee might it not have been for the peace and justice of the empire ? The prince or knight who easily escaped the judgment of the imperial court, and from behind his fortified walls defied even the emperor himself, trembled when in the silence of the night he heard the...
Página 118 - They spare not the holy churches, nor the sanctuaries of the poor, nor the rights of prelates. The primitive Church, founded on poverty and simplicity, brought forth numberless Saints : she rested on no foundation but that which had been laid by our Lord Jesus Christ. The Romans are now rolling in wealth ; what wonder that the walls of the Church are undermined to the base, and threaten utter ruin.
Página 238 - against the furious peasantry," in which he called upon all the citizens of the empire " to strangle, to stab them, secretly and openly, as they can, as one would kill a mad dog."* The peasantry had, however, ceased to respect him. Florian Geyer returned to Franconia, where he systematically destroyed the castles of the nobility. The main body of the insurgents, meanwhile, held a great council of war at Gundelsheim, in which Wendel Hippler, who had formerly been in the service...
Página 309 - Loi naturelle, dedicated at first to the margravine of Baireuth and afterwards to the Duchess of Saxe-Gotha, a portrait of Frederick which was truthful and at the same time bitter : — " Of incongruities a monstrous pile, Calling men brothers, crushing them the while; With air humane, a misanthropic brute ; Ofttimes impulsive, sometimes over-'cute; Weak 'midst his choler, modest in his pride ; Yearning for virtue, lust personified; Statesman and author, of the slippery crew ; My patron, pupil, persecutor...
Página 132 - Heaven for vengeance. Nor do I esteem my Swabians and Bavarians, my Germans, so low, as not to trust that this stain on the honour of the German nation will be washed out by them in French blood.