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In a few weeks the scene was changed, and by his prudence and activity Ferdinand improved his position as rapidly as Frederick, by indolence and impolicy, ruined his. The Estates of Lower Austria were regained to their allegiance by a confirmation of their privileges; and the few who still held out were declared guilty of `lese-majeste' and high treason.
Sir Samuel and I objected to this, and later it was settled for the Turnours to do what her ladyship planned for you, without the company of the tourists. Lady Turnour resents lèse-majesté." "It's a miracle she consented to leave the car," I said. "She couldn't use it without a chauffeur, and naturally I refused to go without knowing what had happened to you." "You refused!" I stammered.
A sitz-redacteur, John, is a gentleman employed by German newspapers with a taste for lese-majeste to go to prison whenever required in place of the real editor. The real editor hints in his bright and snappy editorial, for instance, that the Kaiser's mustache gives him bad dreams.
A man capable of conceiving such a hero as Posa, and defending the conception as true to life, could hardly be expected to adjust his mind easily to such a work as Goethe's 'Egmont'. In his review of the play, published in 1788, Schiller found, indeed, much to praise; but his general praise was so mixed up with general fault-finding as to produce upon the Rudolstadt people the impression of a naughty lese-majeste.
Among those who are united by this spirit, there is one joke that is an unfailing touchstone and bond of union the institution of lèse-majesté. It is a matter for unquenchable laughter, that superiority should require to be protected against inferiority by the enforced signs of respect, or by a hedge of reserve.
It is a prime way of making laws ridiculous; if you want to cultivate lèse-majesté in Germany get the Kaiser to proclaim his divine origin; if you want to promote disrespect of the courts, announce their infallibility. But in this case, the Commission is not representative of the dominant thought of our times.
At last he reached the fast disappearing feast and with his sharp knife slashed off a more generous portion than he had hoped for, an entire hairy forearm, where it protruded from beneath the feet of the mighty Kerchak, who was so busily engaged in perpetuating the royal prerogative of gluttony that he failed to note the act of LESE-MAJESTE.
But he held the same opinion as did the Grand Duke of Oldenburg concerning lêse-majesté: that the insult of a fool is no insult. "Be calm, my dear Wegstetten," he said. "Let your count take himself off. But you had better just send some one up there one of the non-coms, upon whom you can rely to fetch down that placard before any of the men can get hold of it.
He was a zealous supporter of the reformed faith, and was present at several sieges; but becoming dissatisfied with the citizens of La Rochelle, with whom he took refuge in 1622, he passed over to England, to solicit assistance; a proceeding which compelled the French Court to declare him guilty of lèse-majesté, and he subsequently refused to return to his own country when a general amnesty was proclaimed.
Twenty years ago to call a negro 'nigger' was actionable; many a 5l. has been paid for the indulgence of lèse-majesté against the 'man and brother; and not a few 50l. when the case was brought into the civil courts. His interest was to promote litigation and to fill his pockets by what is called sharp practice.
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