Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Emperor or the Pope gain more at Canossa...
...concert was ended by a superb and stirring presentation of Beethoven's third symphony. This symphony was completed in 1804, and dedicated to Napoleon, but the news of the latter's assumption of the title of emperor so angered Beethoven that he tore off the title page, and restored it only when Napoleon died at St. Helena. The term "heroic" is applied to it, not in the sense of a military hero, but in that of a perfect man. The four movements depict man's various sensations: in the first, youthful and active emotions, followed by the mournful and solemn...
...great statesman. His lecture was an anticipated funeral eulogy. From the German standpoint the removal of Bismarck is a mistake. But Bismarck fell struck by the weapon which he had himself forged-the weapon of all powerful monarchical government. The great statesman had brought up the young emperor to reverence this idea, and when the views of the two men (the giant and the youngster) differed, the former fell a victim to the strength that he had given the latter...
...young emperor, conscious that he was the fount of all wisdom, began at once to assert his superior knowledge over that of his various ministers: and it mattered not that a minister happened to be master of his own specialty. Emperor Wilhelm's notion of monarchy is that all whom the monarch condescends to notice are thereby greatly honored and should in return be entirely submissive to the monarch's bidding. Thus did Emperor Wilhelm turn out Minister Gosler. So suddenly does the emperor indulge his whims that the Berliners call him Der Ploetzliche...
...good, my children," says this all caring father of thirty-one, "do as I tell you, and you will come out all right." Have the emperor's trusting children come out all right? Instead of helping to solve the problems of socialism, the emperor's chancellor is raising appropriations to carry on a socialistic civil war. The foreign policy, which under Bismarck took the firm form of the Triple Alliance, and an understanding with Russia, has not been weakened by the emperor's clumsy visit to Rome. Germanic ideas are losing ground in Austria and the Pope has practically gone...