"Steffens" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seriously wounded. The peasantry saw their homesteads destroyed with equanimity when told that it would weaken France. Koerner sang and fought; Arndt sounded the trumpet of German unity; Luetzow gathered his famous "black troop," and the universities were so fervid that Professor Steffens of Breslau issued the first call for war against Napoleon; a summons which swept the students of that university, as well as those of Berlin, Koenigsberg, Halle, Jena, and Goettingen, into the ranks. Wherever the Russians appeared ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane |
