Letters To Varnhagen Von Ense Together With Extr From Varnhagens Diaries And Letters From Varnhagen And Others To Humboldt Ed By L Assing Grimelli

Author : Alexander Von Humboldt
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230357409
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book An Letters of Alexander Von Humboldt; Written Between the Years 1827 and 1858, to Varnhagen Von Ense. Together with Extracts from Varnhagen's Diaries written by Alexander Von Humboldt and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... on thy way, and may the guilt of all the blood that is shed rest only on the heads of those who force thee to enter upon this path! It is not the momentary successes, but the failures that advance the popular cause here." "We must here mention a further visit of Humboldt to Varnhagen. The latter writes in his Diary, 12th February, 1849: --" A visit from Humboldt. He looks upon it as absurd on the part of Ministers to think of going before the Chambers, as they could not even find men to fill up their body; even a fellow like Kiihlwetter* would refuse to join them. My expression, that the Constitution graciously granted by the King was merely the thick husk inclosing the germ of a new Revolution, which would come to maturity, frightened him a little; but he was much amused with the King's 'having been at issue with logic for the last eight years.' He tells me that the King had greatly wished to re-appoint Canitz Minister of Foreign Affairs; that Eichhorn was likewise allowed again to tender advice, and that, like the wife of Privy Councillor * * *, he spoke of the 'Pietist party, ' as if he had never belonged to it himself. "The 'Staatsanzeiger 'f gives the Austrian note touching German affairs. Austria refuses to leave the Confederation, and states at once the points which she will never consent to, viz., no sovereignty of the people--no other head but Austria. A slap in the face for Prussia, for Frankfort, and especially for Gragern.J There it is! How everything plays into the hands of the Republic!" * Kiihlwetter, Minister of the Interior in 1848, founder of the Berlin Constabulary.--Tr. t The Prussian Official Gazette.--Tb. J Henry von Gagern, the President of the National Assembly at Frankfort, who proposed a plan, according to which...