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...Volume 5 was published after his death. Chapter 24 begins with the change in parliament with the 1698 elections. The death of the Electoral Prince of Bavaria obviates the first partition treaty and William and Lewis must try again. A good telling to the Darien bubble. Chapter 24 begins with the change in parliament with the 1698 elections. The death of the Electoral Prince...

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...The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles from Bavaria. There, by reason of his resemblance to the King of Ruritania he becomes involved in saving the King’s Life and his Throne from the King’s dastardly brother and his allies. Woods, moated castles, pomp, swordplay, gall...

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...s in the bunker in Berlin. But he many sources document his passion for caviar, Bavarian sausages, liver dumplings, and ham, for instance. Moreo... ...n by a wilful dictator and against the declaration of aggressive war. The Land of Bavaria - an important constituent of West Germany - refused to ...

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...he Emperor Conradus, third of that name, having besieged Guelphe, Duke of Bavaria, what vile or base satisfaction soever was offered him, would yeeld...

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...nging to Oosterlinck? That’s a hostage, hey!” “And suppose he steals those Bavarian jewels? Tiens, he looks more like a thief than a Fleming.” “Hush!”... ...only in their hearts. CHAPTER III THE ROBBERY OF THE JEWELS OF THE DUKE OF BAVARIA THE NEXT DAY, about nine in the morning, as Louis XI. was leaving h... ...ey have been ravished from me, sire! To steal the jewels of the Elector of Bavaria! those scoundrels respect nothing! they’ll steal your kingdom if yo... ... the king, why did he take nothing out of it but the jewels of the Duke of Bavaria? What reason had he for leaving that pearl necklace which lay besid...

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...commerce, seeing that the consumption of beer increased almost hourly. All Bavaria could not equal Cologne for quantity made away with. The chief memb... ...Now,’ said she, ‘that is a well-known story about the Electress Dowager of Bavaria, when she came on a visit to the castle; and, my dear child, be it ... ...aw the two dead princes, the Prince Palatine of Bohemia and the Elector of Bavaria, standing front to front at the foot of the bed, all in white armou...

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...Mentz, to which that honor belonged. Some have supposed that Carlsburg, in Bavaria, was the true place of his birth; and, indeed, that it drew its nam... ...er- son upon motives of private revenge. Tassilo, for example, the Duke of Bavaria, and Desiderius, the King of the Lombards, acted against him upon t... ...s amelioration of things for Greece, which lies in summary ejecting of the Bavarian locusts. Where all offices of profit or honor are engrossed by nee... ...dgings, possesses as good a title, to see Athens and the Peloponnesus as a Bavarian, and a better than a T urk; and, if he cannot be suffered to pass ... ... Calabria in Montgomeryshire or Devonshire, for dreary, sunburned flats in Bavaria, in Provence, in Languedoc, or in the ‘Legations’ of the Papal terr... ... in its best parts, by a Turkish aristocracy that had engrossed them, to a Bavarian that cannot use them. In short, Mr. Mure is simply a territorial g... ...the embonpoint of female rustics in Germany; and accordingly, it is by the Bavarian officers of King Otho’s army that these fair Aracovites have been ... ...ressive of disease—it is scrofula; it is phagedoenic ulcer. And unless the Bavarian government can do more than is now held out or hoped, towards the ... ...illiant. A government and a court, drawn from a needy aristocracy like the Bavarian, are not suited to a needy people, struggling with the difficultie...

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... and the race that received it. 5 Twilight in Italy As one goes among the Bavarian uplands and foothills, soon one realizes here is another land, a s... ...pies I saw, then the Christ. It was an old shrine, the wood-sculpture of a Bavarian peas- ant. The Christ was a peasant of the foot of the Alps. He ha... ...wn negation. There is a strange, clear beauty of form about the men of the Bavarian highlands, about both men and women. They are large and clear and ... ...w and for ever. Hence the strange beauty and finality and isolation of the Bavarian peasant. It is plain in the crucifixes. Here is the essence render... ...the southern slope, the influence of the educated world is felt once more. Bavaria is remote in spirit, as yet unattached. Its crucifixes are old and ... ...ions are cut very fine. As we pass with the padrona of the hotel, who is a Bavarian, we stop to speak to our own padroni, the Di Paoli. They have a wa... ...three years—that is too long, that is bad.’ I told him how the soldiers in Bavaria hated the military service. 137 Twilight in Italy ‘Yes,’ he said, ...

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...ore magnificently enter- 70 Henry Esmond – Book Two tained. Gidlingen, in Bavaria, was appointed as the general rendezvous of the army, and thither, ... ...ried to save themselves by swimming. Our army entered Donauwort, which the Bavarians evacu- ated; and where ’twas said the Elector purposed to have gi... ... hath recorded. Our Duke here once more met his old enemy of Blenheim, the Bavarian Elector and the Marechal Villeroy, over whom the Prince of Savoy h... ...friend’s military decoration. “Hush! I am Mr. or Captain von Holtz, in the Bavarian Elector’s service, and on a mission to his Highness the Prince of ... ...th a smile, “a priest in full orders, and with a pair of mustachios, and a Bavarian uniform?” “My son,” says Father Holt, turning red, “in the cause o... ...e, the relief of Brussels, then invested by the enemy under the Elector of Bavaria, the restoration of the great cities of Ghent and Bruges, of which ...

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...e’s and the Emperor’s friends, and when they only applied to the troops of Bavaria and of Swabia—that, in 1141, Wolf, Duke of Bavaria, was besieged in... ...eedom. He in- vited them all to a banquet, and made peace with the Duke of Bavaria on terms much more favorable to the Guelfs than the rest of his par...

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...was likewise a history, if one would take the trouble to inquire. He was a Bavarian by birth (his mother being an English lady), and enjoyed along wit... ...n of His Majesty’s gardes du corps; then a lieu- tenant and captain in the Bavarian service; and when, after the battle of Blenheim, two regiments of ... ...n Macshane’s disposition; and on the 17th of February last, he stopped the Bavarian Envoy’s coach on Blackheath, coming from Dover, and robbed his Exc... ... Romish missal, out of which he was then reading, and a case-bottle.” “The Bavarian Envoy!” said Tom parenthetically. “My mas- 112 Catherine: A Story... ...worship may be called attention), and likewise by the Father’s patron, the Bavarian Ambassador, his Excellency Count Maximilian de Galgenstein.” As ol... ...ef in his right hand, turned down in the direction of Whitehall, where the Bavarian Envoy lodged. But, before he waited on him, Mr. Billings, being ex... ...nner of curing them, his great consideration as chamberlain to the Duke of Bavaria; how he wore his Court suits, and of a particular powder which he h... ...of several English and foreign noblemen; among whom was his Excellency the Bavarian Envoy. Ma- dame Amenaide was, in fact, no other than the maitresse... ..., with a burgomaster’s daughter at Ratisbon, when he was in the Elector of Bavaria’s service—then, after Blenheim, when he had come over to the Duke o...

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... 35 Saint-Simon eyed, and half blind,—at the toilette of the Dauphiness of Bavaria, where everybody courted her, because she was still much considered... ...isfortune. T welve or fifteen years afterwards he was recognised among the Bavarian troops, in which he was serving in order to gain his bread and to ... ...d the same. On Monday, the 22nd, letters were received from the Elector of Bavaria, stating that the King of Spain had been proclaimed at Brussels wit... ...troops were opposing the Allies in various parts of Europe. The Elector of Bavaria had joined his forces to ours, and had already done us some service... ... taken in flank by the English, wavered in its turn. All the valour of the Bavarians, all the prodigies of the Elector, were unable to remedy the effe... ...army, after several hasty marches, finding itself at Ghent, the Elector of Bavaria had insisted that it ought at least to remain there. A council of w... ...t one. So in fact it proved. A certain Guetem, a fiddler of the Elector of Bavaria, had entered the service of Holland, had taken part in her war agai... ...enced. The Duc de Vendome was in command in Flanders, under the Elector of Bavaria, and by his slothfulness and inattention, allowed Marlborough to 3... ...grow out of the affair of the double election of Cologne, of the Prince of Bavaria, and of the Cardinal of Furstenberg; he confirmed it in carrying th...

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...e the rights of personal liberty. Now, take this for instance: The King of—Bavaria? I think it was Bavaria—yes, Bavaria, it was— in 1862, March, 1862,...

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...llowed him to pass, believing him to belong to the suite of the Elector of Bavaria, who had just left, and that he was going to deliver a message on b...

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...lus were as good as those of Samuel Bernard, of Beaujon, or of the King of Bavaria. And then human longevity has diminished. “Thus, to those who will ...

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... M. Dessault; ‘though that snuff-box came from the hands of the Elector of Bavaria!’ As soon as the meal was over, the French Consul, instead of takin...

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...st which were obscurely whis- pered those of the Czar, the Crown Prince of Bavaria and of Wurtemburg, of the Hospodar of Wallachia, of Count Capodistr... ...ecret watchwords in their impen- etrable cipher; Moscow was a countersign; Bavaria and Aus- tria bore mysterious parts in the drama; and, though no so... ...HE WINTER OF 1633 had set in with unusual severity through- out Suabia and Bavaria, though as yet scarcely advanced be- yond the first week of Novembe... ... long vistas which traversed the woods between the frontiers of Suabia and Bavaria. In this perplexity of paths, the officer halted his party to consi... ...drid, and of Vienna, and propagated to this age by the links of Tilly, the Bavarian com- mander, and W allenstein, the more than princely commander fo...

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...tion was to write a picturesque history of France. Three women—Isabella of Bavaria, Catharine and Marie dé Medici—hold an enormous 14 Catherine dé Me... ...ng was superior to that of the greatest German rulers, such as the Duke of Bavaria and the Elector of Saxony. The kitchen of the Lecamus family was be...

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...s pride and gratification are simply bound- less. Still, there are circumstances in which even a royal en- core— But it is better to illustrate. The K... ...pecial providences could have relieved him. He was a doughty war- 53 A Tramp Abroad rior and found a deep joy in battle. In an assault upon a strongh...