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And everybody sang "Britannia, Rule the Waves," and "Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles," and Adam Meyer got on a chair and made a tremendous speech more in dialect than ever, and there was much drinking of beer and sirops in the moonlight under the linden.... Afterwards there had been a periodic sending of postcards and greetings, which indeed only the war had ended.
Nevertheless, composition the presiding all-controlling intellect is just what makes itself felt by absence; and Correggio's special qualities of light and colour have now so far vanished from the cupola of the Duomo that the, constructive poverty is not disguised. Here if anywhere in painting, we may apply Goethe's words Gefühl ist Alles.
He himself stood at the window, and when any one tried to jump out, the Czar struck off his head. "Alles tot!" he exclaimed in German, when it was all over. Then he went his way in the direction of the Peter-Paul Fortress. He was received by the Commandant, and had himself conducted to Prince Alexis, his only surviving and eldest son, on whom he had built his hope and Russia's destiny.
Deutschland über alles'?" "Oh, no, madame, not at all. They sang hymns. It was an extraordinary sight. They seemed possessed. They were certain that in a few hours they would be in Paris. They passed through the town, and then, just south of the town, they stopped. Our people show the place. It was the nearest they ever got to Paris.
"Would you like to say a lesson now and get one step in advance of all the others?" "O yes! I shall need at least as much grace as that." "Then say this after me: 'ICH WILL ALLES LERNEN, WAS SIE MICH LEHREN. Begin. "'ICH WILL ALLES LERNEN' but what does it mean?" "Oh, that is not important. Learn it first. Can you not trust me?
"'Addio mia bella Napoli," suggested Willy, "or anything you like, Mr. Brambilla." "What does 'like' mean?" asked Franck. "I have heard the word so often." "Would you believe," Willy said to Frederick, "that that ox has been here over a year and doesn't know a word of English?" "'Deutschland, Deutschland über alles!" Franck began to sing. "Goodness gracious!" said Willy.
It comforts me to call this up again, to hide in it for a minute away from the shouting of Deutschland uber Alles, and the hochs and yellings. Then we got to Stettin; and since then I have lived in ugliness. The Kaiser came back on Monday.
In Vienna, Frau Nirlanger was a widow, from a family aber hoch edel very high born. From the court her family is, and friends from the Emperor, und alles. Sure! Frau Nirlanger, she is different from the rest. And what you think!" "I don't know," I gasped, hanging on her words, "what DO I think?" "She meets this here Konrad Nirlanger, and falls with him in love. Und her family is mad!
What cheering there was from Brooklyn shores as these transports and convoys, black with men, steamed slowly into the ravished upper bay, their bands crashing out "Deutschland Ueber Alles" and their proud eagles floating from all the mast-heads! "This makes three hundred thousand first-class fighting-men," scowled Frederick Palmer as we watched the pageant.
The object of this teaching is to instill in the minds of the people, and particularly of the young, the principles of "Deutschland über alles," which, in translation, means "America first." There are more than twenty million children in the public schools of the United States who are receiving daily lessons in this first principle of popular support for imperial policy.
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