"Margrave" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... inability of the cleverest sovereign and the most experienced minister of the age to distinguish between the fears of a timid cabinet and the impulses of an excited nation. Leopold's vituperations might have had the intended effect if they had been addressed to the Margrave of Baden or the Doge of Venice; addressed to the French nation and its popular Assembly in the height of civil conflict, they were as oil poured upon the flames. Leopold ruined the party which he meant to reinforce; he threw the nation ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe
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... corrupt parliamentary elector could conceive in his wildest dreams of avarice. There were only seven electors and the prize was the greatest on earth. Francis I. said he was ready to spend 3,000,000 crowns, and Charles could not afford to lag far behind.[256] The Margrave of Brandenburg, "the father of all greediness," as the Austrians called him, was particularly influential because his brother, the Archbishop of Mainz, was also an elector and he required an especially exorbitant bribe. He was ambitious as well as covetous, ...
— Henry VIII. • A. F. Pollard
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... was to secure not only Podiebrad's own vote but his "influence" with the Archbishop of Mayence, the Elector of Saxony and the Margrave of Brandenburg.[4] While Podiebrad thus dangled the ultimate hopes of the imperial crown before the duke's eyes, he over-estimated his credulity. As a matter of fact the royal exile had no "influence" at all with the first named elector, and the last, ...
— Charles the Bold - Last Duke Of Burgundy, 1433-1477 • Ruth Putnam
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... of the allies the following were the arrangements for the opening of the campaign. A German army under Louis, Margrave of Baden, was to be collected on the upper Rhine to threaten France on the side of Alsace. A second corps, 25,000 strong, composed of Prussian troops and Dutch, under the Prince of Saarbruck, were to undertake the siege of Kaiserwerth, a small but very important ...
— The Cornet of Horse - A Tale of Marlborough's Wars • G. A. Henty
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... l'usage, a la mort du marquis de Lusace, Que l'heritier du trone, en qui revit la race, Avant de revetir les royaux attributs, Aille, une nuit, souper dans la tour de Corbus; C'est de ce noir souper qu'il sort prince et margrave; La marquise n'est bonne et le marquis n'est brave Que s'ils ont respire les funebres parfums Des siecles dans ce nid des vieux maitres defunts. Les marquis de Lusace ont une haute tige, Et leur source est profonde a donner le vertige; Ils ont pour pere Antee, ancetre d'Attila; De ce vaincu ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
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