"These fellows" (the Priests), continues he, "would fain have the temporal sword as well as the spiritual.

Had God wished there should be only one sword, he could have contrived that as well as the two.

He surely did not want for intellect _( Er war gar ein weiser Mann),"_--want of intellect it clearly was not!--In short, they had to bury the dead, and do reason; and Albert hustled himself well clear of this broil, as he had done of many.
Battle enough, poor man, with steel and other weapons:--and we see he did it with sharp insight, good forecast; now and then in a wildly leonine or AQUILINE manner.

A tall hook-nosed man, of lean, sharp, rather taciturn aspect; nose and look are very aquiline; and there is a cloudy sorrow in those old eyes, which seems capable of sudden effulgence to a dangerous extent.

He was a considerable, diplomatist too: very great with the Kaiser, Old Friedrich III.