[History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. III. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link bookHistory Of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. III. (of XXI.) CHAPTER XIV 12/19
Ita, quae apud concordes vincula caritatis, incitamenta irarum apud infensos erant."_ (Cited in Kohler, _Munzbelustiqungen,_ xxi.
341; who refers also to Levassor, _Histoire de Louis XII.)_--Pauli (iii.
542) bedomes qnite vaporous.] a slap that had important consequences in this world. For now Wolfgang Wilhelm, flaming off in never-imagined vengeance, posted straight to Munchen, to Max of Bavaria there; declared himself convinced, or nearly so, of the Roman-Catholic Religion; wooed, and in a few weeks (10th November, 1613) wedded Max's younger Sister; and soon after, at Dusseldorf, pompously professed such his blessed change of Belief,--with immense flourish of trumpeting, and jubilant pamphleteering, from Holy Church.
[Kohler, ubi supra.] His poor old Father, the devoutest of Protestants, wailed aloud his "Ichabod! the glory is departed!"-- holding "weekly fast and humiliation" ever after,--and died in few months of a broken heart.
The Catholic League has now a new Member on those terms. And on the other hand, Johann Sigismund, nearly with the like haste (25th December, 1613), declared himself convinced of Calvinism, his younger Brother's creed; [Pauli, iii.
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