Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...separation with Alsace-Lorraine, for that would mean a recognition of the monarchical form of government over French subjects. The visit of the empress Friedrick to Paris was marked by respect on the part of the French. But when it appeared that this visit was merely to give Wilhelm a chance to say, "There you see reconciliation," Frenchmen said, "No, we will not have reconciliation...
...refer to the passages up or down of the actor as he went up the stairs to the stage from the orchestra or decended to the orchestra from the stage; secondly, on the inferences which it seemed could be drawn from from ruins of Greek theatres. In 1890 Dr. Wilhelm Dorpfeld, the noted authority on Greek antiquities and first secretary of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, published his conclusions, the results of a careful architectural study of the theatre of Dionysius at Athens, which were to the effect that the proscenium which had generally been considered the front wall...
NOTES:- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in 1770, studied at the University of Tubingen from 1788 until 1793, became Docent at Jena in 1801, published his "Phenomenology of Spirit" in 1807, was later Gymnasium Director, between 1808 and 1816, was then professor at Heidelberg, and afterwards at Berlin, and died in 1831. His "Logic" was published in the years 1812-1816. His works were collected and printed, after his death, in eighteen volumes. In English the best account of his life is that of Edward Caird, in Blackwood's "Philosophical Classics." Of Dr. Hutchinson Sterling's famous and historically...
...fifteen page thesis will be due in German 5 on March 24, on "Wilhelm Meister and Mignon...