Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
Date | 1899 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
Title | Page 14 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_001_027.jpg |
Transcript | The Story oj Nuremi connected with another of the great ruling famiL the world. " It was in those same years," say. Cailyl.-.' " that I young fellow, Conrad by name far off in the Southern part of Germany set out from the old Castle of Hobenxollem tin- southern summit of that same huge old Hercynian wood, which is still called the Schwar/.wald or BUcl I thoilffh now comparatively bare of trees) when- he was but a junior and had small outlooks, upon a \ : rand in the world. . . . His purpose was to find BurbarOttt and leek iM'iiM him. To this Frederick Redbeard a magnificent, magnanimous man, holding the reins of tin- wi aite in the imaginary sense; scour^in^ anarchy down and ur^in^ noble effort up, really on a grand leak -Conrad addressed bin and he did it with success; which may be taken as .1 kind oj testimonial to the worth of the youn^ man. Detail* ire baft absolutely none; but their is no doubt that Conrad n mended himself to Kaiter Redbeard. nor any that the I was a judge of men. . . . One thing further ia known, cant for his successes: Conrad found favour with • of the Vohbur^ Family,'desirable TOUOg beiretl,and ^<>t her to wife. The Vohburo family, now much forgotten everywhere, and never heard of in England before, bad long been of supreme importance, of immense possessions, and opulent in territories. and, we need not add, in honours and offices, in those Franconian Niirnberg regions; and was now gOOC to this one girl. I know not that she hatl mucli inheritanee all: the vast Vohburg properties lapsing all to the K when the male heirs were out. But sbe had pretension*, tacit claims: in particular tin- Vohburgl bad Ion;.: habitual or in effect hereditary Bur^grafs of N&rnbefg ; ami if Conrad had the talent for that office, be now in pre! to others might have a chance for it. Sun.- enoogh, it; took root in it, he and bis; and. in tin- COUrte ol eenturie-. l)ranched up from it. high and wide, over the adjoining countries; waxing towards still higher deatio i- the epitome of Conrad's history; history now I but then no bigger than its neighbours and rery nv recorded; of which the reflective reader is to make wbat he- can. . . . "As to the Office, it was more important than | reader imagines. In a Diet of the Empire 1170; we find 1 •• Hist. Frederick the Great," vol. i.. bk. ii . cb. \. 14 |