A School History of Germany: From the Earliest Period to the Establishment of the German Empire in 1871 |
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Page 297 - Millennium upon earth. The exigencies of their situation obliged these two parties to unite in common defence against the forces of the Church and the Empire, during the sixteen years of war which followed ; but they always remained separated in their religious views, and mutually intolerant. Ziska, who called himself " John Ziska of the Chalice, commander in the hope of God of the Taborites," had been a friend and was an ardent follower of Huss. He was an old man, bald-headed, short, broad-shouldered,...
Page 338 - Pope nor the councils alone; both of them having evidently often erred, and contradicted themselves, and since it is neither safe nor advisable to do anything against the conscience. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me! Amen!
Page 411 - For the life of a generation men had been engaged in the business of war and had allowed their children to grow up in absolute ignorance. Moral law was forgotten. Vice, nourished by the licentious atmosphere of the camp, reigned supreme. God, worship, religion became only a tradition. In character, in intelligence and in morality the German people were set back two hundred years.
Page 520 - Rhine-Bund, there was, however, very little real patriotism among the people : in Austria the latter were still kept down by the Jesuitic rule of the Hapsburgs : only in the smaller Saxon Duchies, and in Prussia, the idea of resistance was fostered, though in spite of Frederick William III. Indeed, the temporary removal of the king was for awhile secretly advocated. Hardenberg and Scharnhorst did their utmost to prepare the people for the struggle which they knew would come : the former introduced...
Page 433 - I stand," says he, in one of his letters, " like a sentinel on the Rhine ; and as mine eye wanders over those fair regions, I think within myself how happy, and beautiful, and undisturbed in the enjoyment of Nature's gifts they might be, if they possessed courage to use the strength which God hath given them. With an army of 200,000 men I would engage to drive the French out of Germany, and (as I once told the Elector of...
Page 277 - ... kindred of robbers, wherefore God removes the light of their minds from their office, they become blind leaders of the blind , and their darkened thoughts are the source of many misdeeds." The Golden Bull confirms the former custom of having seven Chief Electors — the Archbishops of Mayence, Treves and Cologne, the first of whom is Arch-Chancellor; the king of Bohemia, Arch-Cupbearer; the Count Palatine of the Rhine, Arch-Steward; the Duke of Saxony, Arch-Marshal, and the Margrave of Brandenburg,...
Page 410 - This statement of the losses of Germany, however, was but a small part of the suffering endured. . . . During the last ten or twelve years of the war, both Protestants and Catholics vied with each other in deeds of barbarity ; the soldiers were nothing but highway robbers, who maimed and tortured the country people to make them give up their last remaining property.
Page 285 - ... which he had so often inflicted on others. Of his epistolary talents there is a curious specimen still extant in the form of a letter to the citizens of Rotenburg, written in answer to their refusal to advance him 4000 florins. " To our unfaithful men of Rotenburg, who are disobedient unto the Empire. The devil began to shear a hog, and spake thus,
Page 501 - Miinster and Paderborn), and a number of abbeys and cities, including Erfurt, amounting to four times as much as she had lost on the left bank of the Rhine. Baden was increased to double its former size by the remains of the Palatinate (including Heidelberg and Mannheim), the city of Constance, and a number of abbeys and monasteries : a great part of Franconia, with Wiirzburg and Bamberg, was added to Bavaria. Wurtemberg, Hesse-Darmstadt and Nassau were much enlarged, and most of the other States...
Page 456 - I mean that every man in my kingdom shall have the right to be saved in his own way:" in Silesia, where the Protestants had been persecuted under Austria, the Catholics were now free and contented.