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The History of the Defection of the United Netherlands From the Spanish Empire
The History of the Defection of the United Netherlands From the Spanish Empire Author:Friedrich Schiller Subtitle: Translated From the Original German of Frid. Schiller by E. B. Eastwick General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1844 Original Publisher: Krebs Subjects: History / Europe / Western Travel / Europe / Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the or... more »iginal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: INTRODUCTION. One of the most remarkable political events which have made the 17"' Century among the brightest of the world's epochs, appears to me to be the foundation of the freedom of the Netherlands. If the glittering exploits of ambition and pernicious lust of power claim our admiration, how much more should an event, in which oppressed humanity struggles for its noblest rights, where with the, good cause unwonted powers are united, and the resources of resolute despair triumph in unequal contest over the terrible arts of Tyranny. Great and encouraging is the thought, that a resource is at last discovered against the arrogant usurpations of kingly power; that its best calculated plans against the liberty of mankind may ignominiously fail; that courageous opposition can disable even the outstretched arm of a tyrant, and that heroic perseverance can at last exhaust its terrible resources. Never did this truth penetrate In this translation it has been my study to be literal and to preserve as far as possible not only the meaning of the Author, but his exact words and even the structure of the sentences, . so that to the Student of German the booK may be useful as being easy to relransposu into German. T. me so sensibly as in the history of that memorable rebellion, which for ever separated the united Netherlands from the Spanish Crown -- and therefore I thought it not unworthy the at...« less