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Wolfgang Menzel. ears . The emperor's exhortations to the imperial diet were equally futile : " His Majesty doubts not but that every true patriot will remember that not exclusively the country and the people , but , in reality , the ...
Wolfgang Menzel. ears . The emperor's exhortations to the imperial diet were equally futile : " His Majesty doubts not but that every true patriot will remember that not exclusively the country and the people , but , in reality , the ...
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... equally entertaining . In Vienna , the numerous sinecures enabled adventurers , the upper and lower lacqueys , to live a riotous life , which affected the morals of the people . Eating and drinking became an affair of the utmost ...
... equally entertaining . In Vienna , the numerous sinecures enabled adventurers , the upper and lower lacqueys , to live a riotous life , which affected the morals of the people . Eating and drinking became an affair of the utmost ...
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... equally the slave of luxury . He was passionately fond of hunting , and kept , besides his mistresses , an immense number of dogs . Keyssler , who , in the course of his interesting travels , visited Bavaria in 1729 , gives the ...
... equally the slave of luxury . He was passionately fond of hunting , and kept , besides his mistresses , an immense number of dogs . Keyssler , who , in the course of his interesting travels , visited Bavaria in 1729 , gives the ...
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... equally ill by the family of Bassewitz in the name of the youthful duke . The nobility were extremely cruel and intractable . In 1721 , a Ranzau caused his elder brothers to be assassinated ; another , in 1722 , starved several of his ...
... equally ill by the family of Bassewitz in the name of the youthful duke . The nobility were extremely cruel and intractable . In 1721 , a Ranzau caused his elder brothers to be assassinated ; another , in 1722 , starved several of his ...
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... equally futile . En- raged at his ill success , he at length sent a commission to find out the numbers of the heretics , and , on being informed that they amounted to twenty thousand , observed , " It does not matter , I will clear the ...
... equally futile . En- raged at his ill success , he at length sent a commission to find out the numbers of the heretics , and , on being informed that they amounted to twenty thousand , observed , " It does not matter , I will clear the ...
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