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No, let them strike! TIMOTHY. Did you see my Minnie, doctor? She went to your house. DR. JONATHAN. I met her on the street just now, and left her with Mrs. Prag. GEORGE. Prag's wife! You've been to see her? DR. JONATHAN. Yes. Her condition is serious. She needs a nurse, and Minnie volunteered. TIMOTHY. My Minnie, is it? Then she won't be going back to Newcastle.
Paul there; with due epitaph; and his big mace or battle-club, mostly iron, hung honorable on the wall close by. Kaiser Ferdinand, Karl V.'s brother, on a Progress to Prag, came to lodge at Czaslau, one afternoon: "What is that?" said the Kaiser, strolling over this Peter-and-Paul's Church, and noticing the mace. "Ugh!
But now I know, for the workmens, she is like the Iron Woman of Nuremberg, with her spikes when she holds you in her arms. You call me a traitor, yes, when I say that. GEORGE. No I want to understand. PRAG. I am born in Bavaria, but I am as good an American as any, better than you, because I know what I fight for, what I suffer for.
Excellency Valori is with the French Detachment, or rather poor Valori is everywhere; running about, from quarter to quarter, sometimes to Prag itself; assiduous to heal rents everywhere; clapping cement into manifold cracks, from day to day. Through Valori we get some interesting glimpses into the secret humors and manoeuvres of Comte Maurice.
Browne and Konigseck have to retire on Prag at their swiftest; looking to more important results than Magazines. It is Friedrich's old plan. Long since, in 1744, we saw a march of this kind, Three Columns rushing with simultaneous rapidity on Prag; and need not repeat the particulars on this occasion.
He wrote a touching farewell letter to his beloved flock in the Bethlehem Chapel and another to the University at Prag. After Hus had left Prag, Jacobellus of Mies began to give the cup as well as the bread to the lay communicants.
Before Prag a mighty battle desperately fought; old Schwerin killed, Austrian Browne wounded mortally fatal to Austria; Austrians driven into Prag, with loss of 13,000 men. Not annihilative, since Prag can hold out, though with prospect of famishing. But Daun is coming, in no haste Fabius Cunctator about to be named with 60,000 men; does come to Kolin.
Amazement and discouragement are the general feeling among Friedrich's enemies. If Prag were but got, and the 46,000 well locked away, it would be very salutary for Friedrich's affairs! Week after week, the City holds out; and there seems no hope of it, except by hunger, and burning their Magazines by red-hot balls. Prag Battle, as happens, had already much chilled the ardor of the Reich!
Their groups of tents, and batteries at all the good points, stretch from near the crown of Ziscaberg, eastward to the Villages of Hlaupetin, Kyge, and their Lakes, near four miles; and rearward into the interior one knows not how far; Prince Karl, hardly awake yet, lies at Nussel, near the Moldau, near the Wischerad or southeastmost point of Prag; six good miles west-by-south of Kyge, at the other end of the diagonal line.
September 17th, on the very morrow of the Siege, the Prussians get in motion southward; on the 19th, Friedrich, from his post to north of the City, defiles through Prag, on march to Kunraditz, first stage on that questionable Expedition up the Moldau Valley, right bank; towards Tabor, Budweis, Neuhaus; to threaten Austria, and please Belleisle and the French.
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