counter-steps

Updated: July 31, 2026

Here are the steps, or unavailing counter-steps, in that latter direction: Occurred, as we know, the ERBVERBRUDERUNG; Duke of Liegnitz, and of other extensive heritages, making Deed of Brotherhood with Kur-Brandenburg; Deed forbidden, and so far as might be, rubbed out and annihilated by the then King of Bohemia, subsequently Kaiser Ferdinand I., Karl V.'s Brother.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12