The History of Germany: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Opseg 2H.G. Bohn, 1849 |
Ostala izdanja - Prikaži sve
The History of Germany: From the Earliest Period to 1842, Opseg 2 Wolfgang Menzel Potpun prikaz - 1908 |
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afterwards Albert alliance ancient archbishop arms army attacked attempted Augsburg Austria Basle Bavaria bishop Bohemia Brandenburg brother burnt castle Catholic century Charles church citizens clergy Cologne compelled confederation council Count court crown daughter death defeated defended diet duke Dutch elector elector of Brandenburg elector of Saxony emperor empire estates favour fell Ferdinand force France Frederick French gained German Gustavus Habsburg Hansa head Henry Hohenstaufen Holland house of Habsburg Hungary Hussites imperial Italy Jesuits John John of Bohemia king knights league liberty Louis Lübeck Luther Lutheran Maximilian Mayence meanwhile merely monarch Netherlands nobility nobles notwithstanding papal party peace peasantry peasants petty Pfalz Pfalzgrave Philip Poland pope possession Prague princes prisoner Protestant provinces raised Reformation refused Rhine Rome Rudolf Saxony seized siege Sigmund Silesia Spain stadtholder Strassburg Swabia Sweden Swedish Swiss thousand throne Thuringia took towns treaty troops Turks victory Wallenstein whilst whole William Wurtemberg
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Stranica 368 - Heilbronn was almost totally burnt down ; the inhabitants were either butchered or cruelly tortured. To pillage and murder succeeded famine and pestilence. The population of the duchy of Wurtemberg was reduced from half a million to forty-eight thousand souls. The Jesuits took possession of the old Lutheran university of Tubingen. Osiander, the chancellor of the university, unmoved by the example of his weaker brethren, who recanted in order to retain their offices and dignities, bravely knocked...
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Stranica 154 - AD 1397. THIRD PERIOD. THE AGE OF THE REFORMATION. May God now help us, and give us one of the trumpets with which the walls of Jericho were thrown down, that we may also blow round these paper walls and loosen the Christian rods for the punishment of sins, in order that we may correct ourselves by chastisement.— LUTHER. PART XIV. THE HUSSITE WARS. CLXXXIII. Sigmund. WE have now arrived at that stormy period when the wornout empire of the middle ages, shaken from within and without, fell in ruins,...
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