Travels Through Germany, in a Series of Letters, Τόμος 3T. Cadell, 1787 |
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Σελίδα 330 - Germany which damps their national pride j it is only becaufe Germany cannot •ufe its power altogether, and that other nations feel their ftrength, that it has been defpifed by the inhabitants of other countries, who yet have nothing to boaft above it, fave a fafter bond of union among themfelves, or a ridiculous pride.
Σελίδα 4 - B 2 with with infolence and contempt. The confequence was, that after having defeated the imperial troops in the field, he made free with all Silefia, which gave great offence. Then however he difcovered the moderation of his nature, for it would have been eafy for him, by fupporting Charles VII. to have funk a houfe, which was the moft dangerous to him in all Europe. But his politics did not allow him to commit an injuftice. It was neither the king of Pruffia's love of plunder, nor any thing indeed,...
Σελίδα 297 - A ftraager, who knows nothing of laws, and the cuftoms of the country, happens to fend his fervant to a wine-merchant to buy a bottle of wine; the merchant gives it the man, without telling him a word of his danger; the fervant carries the bottle home open in his hand; he is met by a conftable, and afked where he bought it, which the other tells without difficulty...
Σελίδα 73 - You hardly meet with one German out of a hundred who is on our fide. The Mecklenburghers efpecially have a fondnefs and veneration for our enemies which approaches to fuperftition. I was in many places where they gave little fetes whenever the God with two trumpets, one before and the other behind, fpread reports favourable to the Englifh.
Σελίδα 214 - ... think you, for inftance, of a prieft appealing in his public lectures to Voltaire on Toleration, and other fuch books ? or of fuch authors as Bayle, and Helvetius, being common in the hands of ftudents in logic ? and this, which made it fingularly ridiculous, at a time when the jefuits were ftill difputing with all their eagernefs on the infallibility of the Pope, and the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary ? The prefent elector extends his fatherly care to the regulars, as well as the feculars,...
Σελίδα 328 - ... will do well to leave to other nations the prize of wit, for which they will always contend, in vain. If Germany could make itfelf one great people; if it was united under one governor; if the prefent interefts of a fingle prince were not often in oppofition to the good of the whole; if all the members were fo well compacted into one body, that the fuperfluous fap of the one could circulate and invigorate the reft, what much greater fteps towards cultivation would the empire then make ! But then...
Σελίδα 7 - Ihare he took in the emperor's calamity required of him. It is well known what little fhare his love of robbery and conqueft had in the breaking out of that war in which he eclipfed all that had been done by ancient or modern heroes. In the very heat of this war, in which he himfelf gathered fo many laurels, he wrote a letter to Voltaire, filled with wifhes for philofophical quiet, and full of lamentations on the cruelties of war. Very far from being intoxicated with his fame, and untainted with...
Σελίδα 8 - The world will be aftoniftied, when the particulars of this bufmefs come to be known, as none has ever been fo mifreprefented and diftorted by political motives. I collected at Vienna, fome very extraordinary documents relative to this matter, which I will communicate to you when we meet. Thus far is notorious to all mankind, that in this famous partition, the king had not a third of what fell tq Kuflia, nor a quarter of what Auftria had.
Σελίδα 2 - Prufiia's having taken up arms againft^France and Auftria for the extirpation of the Roman-catholic religion. Auftria had often recourfe to fuch little artifices; Ihe was wont to appeal to the religious and paffionate feelings of the people, whenever her troops were beaten, and probably found fome confolation in it, not that only which arifes from exciting...
Σελίδα 278 - Carmelite, that was not flat nonfenfe. A neceflary confequence of all this is, that the manners are more corrupted here than in any other place under the fun. The churches themfelves are made places of rendezvous, where every kind of licentioufnefs is in part agreed upon, and in part carried into effect. The evening fervices of the monks are like the evening walks in the fuburbs of Vienna, and every alehoufe round the place teems with adultery and fornication. If you happen to go into them on a holiday,...