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| | History of Friedrich II by Thomas Carlyle: OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS Chapter 1 BRANNIBOR: HENRY THE FOWLER |
 | | Henry the Fowler was so happy as to have the fact without any mixture of mendacity: we are in the sad reverse case; reverse case not yet altogether COMPLETE, but daily becoming so,--one of the saddest and strangest ever heard of, if we thought of it!--But to go on with business. |
 | | Markgraviates there continued to be ever after,--Six in Henry`s time:--but as to the number, place, arrangement of them, all this varied according to circumstances outward and inward, chiefly according to the regress or the reintrusion of the circumambient hostile populations; and underwent many changes. |
 | | Henry`s son and successor, if not himself, is reckoned to have founded the Cathedral and Bishopric of Brandenburg,--his Clergy and he always longing much for the conversion of these Wends and Huns; which indeed was, as the like still is, the one thing needful to rugged heathens of that kind. |
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