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He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gold and diamonds: and a wife must sometimes listen, mastering her inward comparisons. Dr. Schlesien had met and meditated on this example of the island energy. Mr.
Had her Hungarian Majesty been able to retain Browne in his post, instead of poor Neipperg who was sent instead, there might have been a considerably different account to give of the sequel. In Schlesien, Schwerin is now to command in chief; the King going off to Berlin for a little, naturally with plenty of errand there.
And from the end of September onwards, Bevern's star, once somewhat bright at Reichenberg, shot rapidly downwards, under the horizon altogether; and there came, post after post, such news out of Schlesien, to say nothing of that Stolpen Party, as Friedrich had never heard before.
For I will, on the 25th, without delay, cross the Neisse, and attack those people, cost what it may, to chase them out of Schlesien and Glatz, and follow them so far as possible.
To the last, they say, if a Stranger, getting audience, were graciously asked, 'From what Country, then? and should answer, 'Schlesien, your Majesty! she would burst into tears. 'Patience, high Madam! urges the Britannic Majesty: 'Patience; may not there be compensation, if we hunt well?" Austrian bears, implacable badgers, with Britannic mastiffs helping, now that the Belleisle Pack is down!
'But, my good sir! you quote me your English Latin. I must beg of you you write it down. It is orally incomprehensible to Continentals. 'We are Islanders! Colney shrugged in languishment. 'Oh, you do great things . . . Dr. Schlesien rejoined in kindness, making his voice a musical intimation of the smallness of the things. 'We build great houses, to employ our bricks'
'Good, but when do we reach your level? 'Sir, I do not say more than that we do not want instruction from foreigners. 'Pupil to paedagogue indeed. You have the wreath in Music, in Jurisprudence, Chemistry, Scholarship, Beer, Arms, Manners. Dr. Schlesien puffed a tempest of tobacco and strode. 'He is chiselling for wit in the Teutonic block, Colney said, falling back to Fenellan.
Schlesien, what we call Silesia, lies in elliptic shape, spread on the top of Europe, partly girt with mountains, like the crown or crest to that part of the Earth; highest table-land of Germany or of the Cisalpine Countries; and sending rivers into all the seas. The summit or highest level of it is in the southwest; longest diameter is from northwest to southeast.
During Meyerbeer's stay in Berlin he introduced Jenny Lind to the Berlin public, as he afterward did indeed to Paris, her début there being made in the opening performance of "Das Feldlager in Schlesien," afterward remodeled into "L'Étoile du Nord." Meyerbeer returned to Paris in 1849, to present the third of his great operas, "Le Prophète."
Peridon traced mortal evil to that act. Dr. Schlesien had his German views, Colney Durance his ironic, Fenellan his fanciful and free-lance. And here was an optimist, there a pessimist; and the rank Radical, the rigid Conservative, were not wanting.
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