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2060sCenturies: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd centuryDecades: 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s 2050s - 2060s - 2070s 2080s 2090s 2100s 2110s Years: 2060 2061 2062[?] 2063[?] 2064[?] 2065[?] 2066 2067 2068[?] 2069[?] Events and Trends like the meanest soldier in his army, and where thousands fell, he, too,
buried in mystery; but here, more than anywhere, does the maxim apply,
for the fact, the honour of human nature ought not to be stained by any
great interposition of Providence. History, too often confined to the
occasionally rewarded by the appearance of events, which strike like a
carry the contemplative mind to a higher order of things. Of this kind,
for a time the whole movement of the political machine, and
very soul, the great and animating principle of his own creation;
flight; untimely torn from a whole world of great designs, and from the
disconsolate; and the proud edifice of his past greatness sunk into
invincible leader, and scarcely can it now separate them from him; with
benefactor of Germany who fell at Lutzen: the beneficent part of his
service which he could render to the liberties of Germany was--to die.
forward to essay their strength; the equivocal assistance of an
part of the Estates; and those who were formerly the mere instruments of
to their own exertions for the emancipation, which could not be received
incapable of sinking into the oppressor, was henceforth restricted to
a power.html">power within Germany, and to attain a firm footing in the centre of
His aim was the imperial crown; and this dignity, supported by his
liable to more abuse than had ever been feared from the House of
power, and by principles and enthusiasm a determined enemy to Popery, he
States, or to respect their liberties. The coercive homage which
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