Austria and the Austrians, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1837 - Austria |
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Page 108 - are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed—that whenever any form of government becomes destructive
Page 107 - laws of nature and of nature's God entitled them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, required that they should declare the causes which led to their separation. " That they held these truths to be self-evident ; that all
Page 108 - foundation on such principles and organizing its power in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to secure their safety and happiness." The Americans carried into wise execution, the determination thus so rationally and so intrepidly declared. The orgies and
Page 127 - Many of these dancing-halls are institutions, for infamous purposes. They belong to private proprietors, who are always innkeepers. On the evening of every Sunday, and generally of every great religious festival, when every body is idle and seeking amusement, these congregations are opened in the suburbs as well as in the city. The balls given in them are,
Page 192 - nicht Der werth des goldes, nicht der Steine Pracht ; Dir ist das höchste Kleinod mein Gedächtniss. Nimm dieses Tuch ! Ich hab's mit eigner Hand Für dich gestickt in meines Kummers Stunden, Und meine heissen Thränen eingewoben. Mit diesem Tuch wirst du die Augen mir verbinden,
Page 130 - as the fund that is to supply the means of its gratification. It is not seduction ; it is just a matter of sale ; nor are mothers ashamed to be the brokers of their daughters. There is no want of purchasers. The most famous, or rather infamous, is Prince
Page 130 - He is said to possess a gallery of purchased beauties, that might stand by the side of an Eastern seraglio. This was not enough : the infantine years of some of his victims produced frightful charges against him. An incensed father, disregarding the danger of accusing a
Page 128 - these lost creatures are, perhaps, the most decent in Europe. You run no risk of being even addressed, much less of being attacked, with the gross depravity of Coventgarden or the Palais Royal.
Page 222 - of their age, or because they themselves were not altogether freed from the contagious influence of a prevailing superstition,
Page 130 - to be imprisoned, and proceeded against criminally. He had been in prison nearly two months when I left Vienna, and the inquiry was not yet finished. The Viennese, however, though a little