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These Saxons one of the fiercest tribes of the Teutonic barbarians; lived, before the invasion of Britain, in that part of Europe which we now call Schleswig, in the heart of the peninsula which parts the Baltic from the northern seas; also in those parts of Germany which now belong to Hanover and Oldenburg.
The affiliations of the Russian aristocracy with the Austrian; the smart of both under the Continental System, which rendered their agriculture unprofitable; England's stand under Castlereagh; the Oldenburg question all these were cumulative in their effect. With Alexander, Poland and the Continental System were the real difficulties; the marriage question was only secondary.
The cause may rest with the Government in giving too much power to the Church: the ecclesiastics are fond of keeping in their own hands all things relating to religion, and will not suffer the light to shine that the people may see for themselves. The settlement we were visiting was partly in Hanover, and partly in Oldenburg.
They were very sorry to know we had been caught, and told us Bromley had been sent to Oldenburg a few days before, for his punishment. They also told us that the night we escaped, no alarm had been given, although the guards may have noticed the hanging wires. Several of the boys had had the notion to go when they saw the wires down, but they were afraid of being caught.
To stamp the success of the meeting, a joint letter was sent to George III, asking for peace on the principle of "uti possidetis." The two monarchs parted with every manifestation of personal devotion; but on Alexander's return to his capital his elder sister was married with indecent haste to the Duke of Oldenburg. Suchet: Mémoires sur ses campagnes en Espagne, 1808-1814.
"And to-day is already the 23d of May," said Oldenburg, musingly; "we may look, therefore, every hour for a decision." "Yes, we may do so," exclaimed Wurzburg; "I know for certain that they are already engaged in Paris in drawing up a new constitution for Germany."
He asks me to give him an indemnity for confiscating the states of his brother-in-law, the Prince of Oldenburg; he demands that I should not engage to reestablish the kingdom of Poland! He wants to impose on me the terms by which peace is to be maintained! Conditions! I am the man to make them, but not to accept any! That would be a humiliation I could not submit to!
The formal Being of things which are not modes of thought does not follow from the divine nature because of His prior knowledge of these things, but, just as ideas follow from the attribute of thought, in the same manner and with the same necessity the objects of ideas follow and are concluded from their attributes. From a letter to Henry Oldenburg . Of Truth
French prisoners Oldenburg bonnets "Fugio ut Fulgor" Soldiers of the Empire Paris A French hotel A walk through Paris Portrait of Madame de Staël An English ambassador The Louvre French tragedy The heights of Montmartre Cossacks in the Champs Elysées £900 for substitute Napoleon's legacies to his successor A dinner at the English Embassy Botany and mineralogy Party at Madame de Staëls A debate in the Corps Législatif Malmaison Elbowing the marshals St Cloud and Trianon The Catacombs.
The legend itself was narrated in Hamelmann's "Oldenburger Chronik" at the end of the sixteenth century, and is even yet current in the mouths of the Oldenburg folk. Hamelmann dates it in the year 990, when the then Count of Oldenburg was hunting in the forest of Bernefeuer. He had followed a roe from that forest to the Osenberg, and had distanced all his attendants.
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