Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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)eople turned away withcontempt. P)Ut the feudal party clierished only the one thought,how might it ))rofit i)y its victory even in the smallest particulai-s.Although in Prussia itself revolutionary symi)toms were nowhereobservable, men of spotless, blameless character, and of the purestpatriotism, fell under malicious susj)icion and the basest espionage.Schleiermachers sermons, the ))ieces in the hynni-book \\lii(h hecaused to be sung, were watched by the ))olice. The censorship, ren-dered more severe from 1819, prohibited a new edition (»f FichtesDiscourses to the German Nation. Inasmucli as they did not veil« 42 THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE NATIONAL HOPES. tnre upon l^aroii vom Stein, his friend Arndt paid the penalty for himby the arbitrary proliibition issued against his delivering lectures, and j^iiiW!iiitifi
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hiG. 5. — Hegel iii ins .study, i^rom the pauiLing by L. feebbeib. by a vexatious trial. Friedrich Jahn (Fig. 0), although acquittedin the court of second instance, was not at liberty to take up his resi-dence either at the seat of a university or gymnasium. It was pre- METIKUNKirs A PIARKXT TRIUMPH. 43 cisely the shimic with which the most lioiiorahle and cajjahh; officerswathdrew from this h)nl prociMhirc of ihe ()oHce that dehvcrcd tlicexainiiiations as to tiie plots of deiHago<»ues into the liands of lessscrupidous time-servers, who recoiled before no odium and no viola-tion of law. By the uon-fuHilmcui of tlu; royal promise of a consti-tution, as well as b)^ the wild rage of persecution directed principallyagainst the high schools, the jewels of the nation, Prussias reputationin Germany suffei-i^l as severely as Metteriiich could ever have de-sired. With maliciouscunning he had givenover the presidency ofthe Mayence centralcommission of inquiryto Prussia, in order tounload

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