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The warehouses were strictly closed; and a few booths, with trifling gewgaws, were alone to be seen. The city was at rest. Leipsic has but one theatre, and to this the prices of admission are doubled in fair-time, which placed it out of our reach.
Unable to obtain for the imperial government the control over the German railroad system, he devised a plan by which Prussia would eventually control three-quarters of the railroads of Germany. An imperial code of laws was adopted ; but, from jealousy of Prussia, the seat of the supreme court of appeal was fixed at Leipsic.
After Gustavus Adolphus had met Tilly near Leipsic and victoriously routed the army of the League, the Protestant princes began to look with more favor on the foreigner. Gustavus then moved westward and took up his winter quarters on the Rhine. There seemed now to be no reason why he should not continue his way to Vienna.
She drew herself back a little, still with her arms round Rose's waist, and looked at her smiling, to see how she took it. Rose had a strange movement of irritation. She drew herself out of Catherine's grasp. 'I don't know that I had settled on Berlin, she said coldly. 'Very possibly Leipsic would be better. Catherine's face fell. 'Whichever you like, dear.
All the accounts I received concurred in assuring me that their situation vas dreadful: However; without counting the wreck which escaped from the disasters of Leipsic, and the ravages of disease; without including the 280,000 men which had been raised by a 'Senatus-consulte, on the application of Maria Louisa, the Emperor still possessed 120,000 good troops; but they were in the rear, scattered along the Elbe, shut up in fortresses such as Dantzic, Hamburg, Torgau, and Spandau.
Leipsic, 1784. 8vo. Malerische Reise in die Italianische Schweitz. Von J.H. Mayer. Zurich, 1793. 8vo. Mayer, in this work, as well as in travels in Italy, has been very happy in picturesque description. Meine Wanderungen durch die Romanische Schweitz, Unterwaller und Savoyen. 1791. Tubingen, 1793. 8vo. Kleine Fuss-reisen durch die Schweitz. Zurich, 1804. 2 vols. 8vo.
This evidence of the fairness of Germany I took pains to make known, and in my address at the American celebration in Leipsic on the Fourth of July declared my belief that the hostility of the German people and press at large was only temporary, and that the old good relations would be restored.
"I thought it must be you," he called out, joyfully, as they struck their extended hands together, "but so many people look alike, nowadays, that I don't trust my eyes any more." Kenby said he had spent the time since they last met partly in Leipsic and partly in Gotha, where he had amused himself in rubbing up his rusty German.
And it is his remarkable pamphlet in reply to the deputation from Leipsic in 1863 that has fitly been characterized as the charter of the whole movement of democratic socialism in Germany down to the present hour. The Revolution of 1848 revealed to European Liberalism a more formidable adversary than Metternich.
The railroad brought us in three hours from Leipsic over the eighty miles of plain that intervene. We came from the station through the Neustadt, passing the Japanese palace and the equestrian statue of Augustus the Strong.
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