Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the tribune,and here in the presence of God and tiiose beloved witnesses liepromised solemly to seek to be a just judge, a faithful, careful, com-passionate prince, and a Christian king, as his never-to-be-foi-gottenfather had been. He prayed God for his blessing upon the ruler,to unite their hearts to the consecrated king, and make of him a manaccording to the divine will, a benefactor to the good, a terror to evildoers! With us, he concluded, there is union iH^weeii the headand members, between prince and people, in the gnind and gloriousunion of all orders striving toward one noble end. So may it pleaseGod to keep our Prussian country itself, (Tcrmany and the world,manifold and yet one ; as the noble bronze, comp(»sed of many metalsmelted together, becomes one, the noblest of all, and is subjected tono rust, but only to the beautifying infliienco of tlie agt^s. Moresin-nificant was it than the.se elevated wonls that tlie king, in replying 250 PRECURSORS OF THE REVOLUTION OF IS4S.
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