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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; a...

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...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...f their party into the country, they contrived imper- ceptibly to fill all places of trust and the magis- tracy with their own adherents, and to exclu... ...y, (the Bohemian Compact); and though it was afterwards dis- avowed by the popes, they nevertheless contin- ued to profit by it under the sanction of ... ... and equal admissibility of the latter to all offices of state. In several places, they of themselves assumed these privi- leges, and, reckoning on a ... ... drive them to popery by a de- nial of the rites of baptism, marriage, and burial. Against two characters so unpopular the pub- lic indignation was ea... ...escape Count Thurn, how dan- gerous it was to leave in hostile hands three places of such importance, which would at all times keep open for the imper... ...pursued by the Italian States. The double character which pertained to the Popes made them perpetually vacillate between two contradictory systems of ...