Life, letters and addresses of Aaron Friedenwald . e him, over which he had capsized the ink-bottle, with the result of causing a good many boundary lines todisappear, and chuckling, with his hands in his pockets and his legsin ... a strut, at the trick he had perpetrated. I did not ad-mire the Emperor much, nor did the French people make a veryfavorable impression upon me. I hope they have improved with thechanges that have since taken place. They seemed to me frivolous,unreliable, and manifesting a strange aversion to telling the . Glory was the watchword of the army, and carried its
Life, letters and addresses of Aaron Friedenwald . e him, over which he had capsized the ink-bottle, with the result of causing a good many boundary lines todisappear, and chuckling, with his hands in his pockets and his legsin ... a strut, at the trick he had perpetrated. I did not ad-mire the Emperor much, nor did the French people make a veryfavorable impression upon me. I hope they have improved with thechanges that have since taken place. They seemed to me frivolous,unreliable, and manifesting a strange aversion to telling the . Glory was the watchword of the army, and carried its AARON FRIEDENWALD i8or however,hospitals . with all that is great and beautiful and interesting in that great city before you, and all the charming recol- vf your Italian trip behind you. I shall never forget the T .,,,.^,) ti,,-v,..-> ,,, .^ ^,;.t1,j- npire, fi at that time. iig a map • the ink- . lines to s legs trick he had pe ot ad- 1 me. ^l hope t^ ^... .. place. T ^, and manifesting a strange : ory was the watchw ed its. Letters. 155 infection through the whole nation. It was looked upon as some-thing above everything else, no matter how it was attained or howshort a time it could be held. A would-be savant would be satisfiedto startle the world with a statement for the sake of the glory itwould give him for twenty-four hours, even if he knew he wouldbe branded as the biggest liar in existence afterwards. I believethat the very unexpected chastisement which they received from theGermans must have had a very salutary influence. It showed thatwhat they had taken for granted, viz., that they were the greatestand the most powerful nation in the world, was a fallacy. ... Ibelieve that, besides ridding the nation of an unprincipal usurperand restoring the republic, their defeat has been a good thing forthe French in many other respects. . Baltimore, February 2, . I have not the time to follow up politics as closely as Iformerly did. I am ashamed to say
Size: 1402px × 1783px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidlifelettersa, bookyear1906
