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| 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 15 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_028.jpg |
| Transcript | Origin and Growth Conrad among the magnates ot the country, denouncing H the Lion's high procedures and malfM | Burggraf of Nurnberg is in virtue of his office ' Prince of the Emp if a man happened to have talent of his own and solid resources of his own which are always «„, the growing hand with this family), here is a basis from which he may go far enough. Burggraf of Nurnberg: that means ag.. fender, manager, g'reeve) of the Kai word, Kaiser's Re; and Alter £go% — in th< Imperial Free-Town ot Nurnberg ; with mud very complex territory, also, to administer for the Kaiser. A flourishing extensive city, tins old Nun b valuable adjacent territory, civic and imperial, intricately intermixed ; lull of commercial industries, opulences, not without democratic tendencies. Nay. it is almost, in some senses. London and Middlesex of the (Jermany that then was, if we will consider it ! ••'Ibis is a place to give a man chance». an tuff is in him. The office involve* a talent for governing, as w» 1 for judging : talent for fighting aho. in cases of extremity, and, what is still better, a talent for avoiding to fight. None but a man of competent superior parts can do that function: I suppose no imbecile could b in the old earnest times. Conrad an hen- zollerns proved very I and grew and spread in it, waxing bigger and big . planting there by Kaiser Barbarossa, a successful judg< men." . . . Nuremberg continue Imperial favour. The importance to which she had now grown is illustrated by the fact that Frederick II., son of Barbarossa, held a vers brilliant A here in i 2 19, and on this occasion he town her first great Charter. Tin- first provision of this Charter, by which the town is declared free of allegiance to anyone but the Emperor, is of special interest, seeing that it raises the question whether Nuremberg was reallv the pri. property of the Imperial family, or only owed allegiance to the Emperor as such. Probab ick did not intend to alienate Nuremberg from himself and |