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Francis Lieber, whose affection for the country of his birth equalled his loyalty to the country of his adoption, once said: "There is this difference between the English, French, and Germans: that the English only change what is necessary and as far as it is necessary; the French plunge into all sorts of novelties by whole masses, get into a chaos, see that they are fools and retrace their steps as quickly, with a high degree of practical sense in all this impracticability; the Germans attempt no change without first recurring to first principles and metaphysics beyond them, systematizing the smallest details in their minds; and when at last they mean to apply all their meditation, opportunity, with its wide and swift wings of a gull, is gone."
But till then you weave your destiny, or, rather, people and beauty weave it for you, as you'll see the Norns weaving, and yet you never know what you are making. You make what you are, and you never are because you are always becoming. You must excuse me; but Germans are always metaphysicians, and they can't help it." "Go on; be German," said Michael. "Lieber Gott!
So Luther's sincere idiomatic German, such language is this: 'Hilf lieber Gott, wie manchen Jammer habe ich gesehen, dass der gemeine Mann doch so gar nichts weiss von der christlichen Lehre! no more proves a power of style in German literature, than Cobbett's sinewy idiomatic English proves it in English literature.
"Understand at last, your Majesty, that there is no Muses'-Heaven possible on Telluric terms; and cast that notion out of your head!" Friedrich does cast it out, more and more, henceforth, "ACH, MEIN LIEBER SULZER, what was your knowledge, then, of that damned race?" Casts it out, we perceive, and in a handsome silently stoical way.
"They speak so well of you in the neighbourhood. Perhaps I may be able to induce you to change your mind!" Von Barwig was now slowly gaining mastery over himself. "Perhaps," he said, with a great effort at self-control. "You do not know me, Herr Von Barwig?" The old man's eyes glowed like live coals. "Elene, Elene!" he murmured. "The living image! Lieber Gott, the living image!"
The frightened maid rose, still half asleep, and rubbed her eyes, understanding nothing. Her mistress' ice-cold hands clutched her, and dragged her somewhere. "Ach lieber Gott . . . Gott in Himmel!" she muttered. "What has happened? What do you want?" "Hush! Come quick!" And Olga Vseslavovna, with a candle in her trembling hand, went forward, dragging the trembling Rita with her.
She ran at the top of her speed to the little yellow house farther down the street. Her blue calico gown clung about her stout figure and fluttered behind her, revealing her blue woollen stockings and felt slippers. Her gray head was bare. As she ran tears rolled down her cheeks and she wrung her hands. "Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh, lieber Herr Je!"
I can scarcely believe that I really see you here at Oviedo. What motive can have induced you to come to such an out- of-the-way place from such an immense distance? Benedict. Lieber herr, I will sit down and tell you all that has befallen me.
The Virginia Springs, and the Springs of the South and West. By J.J. Moorman, M.D. With Maps and Plates, and the Routes and Distances to the Various Springs. Philadelphia. J.B. Lippincott. pp. 403. $1.50. On Civil Liberty and Self-Government. By Francis Lieber, LL.D. Enlarged Edition. Philadelphia. J.B. Lippincott & Co. 8vo. pp. 629. $4.75. The Bertrams. A Novel.
The American Constitution has been the classic model for the federated State. Lieber estimated that three hundred and fifty constitutions were made in the first sixty years of the nineteenth century, and, in the constituent States of the American Union, one hundred and three new Constitutions were promulgated in the first century of the United States.
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