Identifier: bismarckfoundati00head (find matches)
Title: Bismarck and the foundation of the German empire
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Headlam-Morley, James Wycliffe, Sir, 1863-1929
Subjects: Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898
Publisher: New York (etc.) G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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of Bismarck, and had in old daysbeen leader of the National party in Bavaria. WhenBismarcks eightieth birthday was celebrated, theEmperor was present, and once more Bismarck wentto Berlin to visit his sovereign. We may be allowedto believe that the reconciliation was not deep. Weknow that he did not cease to contrast the new marksof Royal favour with the kindly courtesy of his oldmaster, who had known so well how to allow theKing to be forgotten in the friend. As the years went on, he became ever more lonely.His wife was dead, and his brother. Solitude, thecurse of greatness, had fallen on him. He had nofriends, for we cannot call by that name the men, soinferior to himself, by whom he was surrounded—men who did not scruple to betray his confidenceand make a market of his infirmities. With dififi-culty could he bring himself even to systematicwork on the memoirs he proposed to leave. Oldage set its mark on him : his beard had becomewhite; he could no longer, as in former days, ride
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1898) Retii^ement and Death. 46. and walk through the woods near his house. Hisinterest in pubHc affairs never flagged, and especiallyhe watched with unceasing vigilance every move inthe diplomatic world; his mind and spirit were stillunbroken when a sudden return of his old maladyovertook him, and on the last day of July, 1898, hedied at Friedrichsruh. He lies buried, not among his ancestors and kins-folk near the old house at Schoenhausen, nor in theImperial city where his work had been done; but ina solitary tomb at Friedrichsruh to which, withscanty state and hasty ceremony, his body had beenborne.

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