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The People's Edition of Thomas Carlyle's Works. 37 Vols. Wanting
The People's Edition of Thomas Carlyle's Works 37 Vols Wanting Author:Thomas Carlyle General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1894 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 1023. CHAPTER III. MARKGRAVES OF BRANDENBURG. Meanwhile our first enigmatic set of Markgraves, or Deputy-Markgraves, at Brandenburg, are likewise faring ill. Whoever these valiant steel-gray gentlemen might be (which Dryasdust does not the least know, and only makes you more uncertain the more he pretends to tell), one thing is very evident, they had no peaceable possession of the place, nor for above a hundred years, a constant one on any terms. The Wends were highly disinclined to conversion and obedience : once and again, and still again, they burst up ; got temporary hold of Brandenburg, hoping to keep it; and did frightful heterodoxies there. So that to our distressed imagination those poor ' Markgraves of Witekind descent,' our first set in Brandenburg, become altogether shadowy, intermittent, enigmatic, painfully actual as they once were. Take one instance, omitting others ; which happily proves to be the finish of that first shadowy line, and introduces us to a new set very slightly more substantial. End of the First Shadowy Line. In the year 1023, near a century after Henry the Fowler's feat, the Wends bursting up in never-imagined fury, get hold of Brandenburg again, -- for the third and, one would fain hope, the last time. The reason was, words spoken by the then Markgraf of Brandenburg, Dietrich or Theodoric, last of the Witekind Markgraves ; who hearing that a Cousin of his (Markgraf or Deputy-Markgraf like himself) was about wedding his daughter to ' Mistevoi King of the Wends,' said too earnestly : " Don't! Will you give your daughter to a dog ?" Word ' dog' was used, says my author...« less