The Life and Adventures of Ernst Moritz Arndt, the Singer of the German FatherlandRoberts, 1879 - 450 pagine " ... consists mainly of a translation of Arndt's autobiography, abridged in many places, and occasionally enlarged by quotations from his letters and other writings ... The account of the later years of his life is drawn from the numerous biographies."--Prefatory note |
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Pagina 49 - As is a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the knowledge of the unwise is as talk without sense.
Pagina 292 - The allied powers will not lay down their arms until they have attained this great and beneficial result, this noble object of their efforts. They will not lay down their arms until the political state of Europe...
Pagina 448 - I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, the blast that shall scatter my leaves. To-morrow shall the traveller come ; he that saw me in my beauty shall come. His eyes will search the field, but they will not find me.
Pagina 286 - ... Repelling the crash of the fierce assailing; Mothers and brides may be sorely wailing, For I am red." " Speak, comrade, speak, and tell me true, How call ye the land of the fateful fight?" " At Leipzig the murd'rous fierce review Dimmed with full tear-drops many a sight; The balls like winter snowflakes flying, Stifled the breath of thousands dying, By Leipzig town.
Pagina 287 - And who in the strife won the hard-fought day, And who took the prize with iron hand?" "God scattered the foreigner like the sea-spray, God drove off the foreigner like the light sand; Many thousands cover the green-sward lying, The rest like hares to the four winds flying, With Napoleon, too.
Pagina 370 - Burschen met at the Wartburg at the invitation of the Jena branch to commemorate the tercentenary of the Reformation and the fourth anniversary of the battle of Leipzig. The festival was...
Pagina viii - ... of acquiring a true knowledge of history to suppose that a novelist is at all likely to have it. From such writings in fact we do not commonly catch the character of an age, but only the character of a particular novelist's imagination. But in a candid biography, like this of Arndt's, we do really catch in some degree the spirit of an age. Here we see, not what a poet living in some other age fancied may have been, the teachings of a German living under Napoleon's tyranny, but what the feelings...
Pagina 369 - Those who admonish the king are guilty of doubting the inviolability of his word." Prussia afterwards declared that the new regulations would be in readiness by the February of 1819. On the 20th of January, 1820, an edict was published by the government, the first paragraph of which fixed the public debt at 180,091,720 dollars,* and the second one rendered the contraction of every...
Pagina 291 - France, but against that preponderance which has been so loudly proclaimed ; and which, to the misfortune of Europe and of France, the Emperor Napoleon has too long exercised beyond the limits of his empire. Victory brought the allied armies upon the Rhine.
Pagina 291 - The first use made of victory by Their Imperial and Royal Majesties was to offer peace to His Majesty the Emperor of the French.