Vol. XV. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link book Vol. XV. (of XXI.) 10/22 1030.] And the thing was carried by acclamation. Nobility all making off, some to Vienna or the intermediate Towns lying thitherward, some to their Country-seats; all out of Prag. Willing mind on the part of the Common People; which the Government strains every nerve to make the most of. Here are fasts, processions, Prayers of Forty-Hours; here, as in Vienna and elsewhere. In Vienna was a Three Days' solemn Fast: the like in Prag, or better; with procession to the shrine of St.Vitus,--little likely to help, I should fear. |