The Life of Bismarck, Private and Political: With Descriptive Notices of His AncestryHarper & Brothers, 1870 - 491 páginas |
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Página 186 - I am making enormous progress in the art of saying nothing in a great many words. I write reports of many sheets, which read as tersely and roundly as leading articles ; and if the minister can say what there is in them, after he has read them, he can do more than I can.
Página xxix - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 438 - ... imperatively necessary — relation between prince and people, into something merely conventional or constitutional; and that, once for all, I will never suffer a written sheet of paper to force itself in, as it were a second providence, between our Lord God in heaven and this people, in order to rule us with its paragraphs, and to replace by them our ancient and time-hallowed trusty reliance on each other. Between us be truth.
Página 254 - Half an hour ago a courier awakened me with tidings of war and peace. Our politics are sliding more and more into the Austrian groove, and if we fire one shot on the Rhine the ItaloAustrian war is over ; and in place of it we shall see a PrussoFrench war, in which Austria, after we have taken the loadvfrom her shoulders, will assist, or assist so far as her own interests are concerned.
Página 390 - HURRAH . proof that the feeling of solidarity has also grown stronger and stronger with you ; and of this I shall joyfully inform the King. We have always belonged to each other as Germans — we have ever been brothers — but we were unconscious of it. In this country, too, there were different races : Schleswigers, Holsteiners, and Lauenburgers ; as, also, Mecklenburgers, Hanoverians, Liibeckers, and Hamburgers exist, and they are all free to remain what they are, in the knowledge that they are...
Página 274 - ... great Paris than you are at Reinfeld, and sit here like a rat in an empty house. My only amusement was to send away the cook for cheating me in the accounts. You know .how narrowly I look after such things : but was a child in this respect. I shall dine for the present at a cafe. How long this is to last, God knows ! In from eight to ten days I shall probably receive a telegraphic summons to Berlin, and then dance and song is over. If my opponents only knew what a benefit they would confer upon...
Página 158 - ... be brought hither), to be executed here in American marble from the model. If Canova should decline the proposal altogether, as he must now be an old man, what would be the price of such a statue and such a model by the artist he should recommend as in his opinion the nearest to himself in merit? Although I have not the honor to be personally known to you, I shall not take up your time by apologies for giving you this trouble. The time is already approaching when our vines and our olives will...
Página 254 - Austrian war is over; and in place of it we shall see a Prusso-French war, in which Austria, after we have taken the load from her shoulders, will assist, or assist so far as her own interests are concerned. That we should play a very victorious part is scarcely to be conceded. Be it as God wills! it...
Página 439 - European vicissitudes, are comparatively satisfactory; paternal care and good-will are certainly nowhere to be mistaken; the press is as free as the laws of the Confederation permit ; the freedom of confession is associated with animating power to our old liberty of faith and conscience; and our just pride and strong shield, my army of the line and militia, may be called incomparable. With our neighbors and with the Powers on this and the other side of the ocean -we stand on the best terms, and our...
Página 322 - ... my health, especially in winter; and to those who feel themselves justified to be my judges in this, I will render an account —they will believe, even without medical details. As to the Lucca photograph, you would probably be less, severe in your censure, if you knew to what accident it owes its existence. The present Frau von Eadden (Mddle.