With all fidelity; but with all brevity, no less.

For, inasmuch as"-- Well, brevity in most cases is desirable.

And, privately, it must be owned there is another consideration of no small weight: That, our Prussian resources falling altogether into bankruptcy during Peace-Periods, Nature herself has so ordered it, in this instance! Partly it is our Books (the Prussian Dryasdust reaching his acme on those occasions), but in part too it is the Events themselves, that are small and want importance; that have fallen dead to us, in the huge new Time and its uproars.

Events not of flagrant notability (like battles or war-passages), to bridle Dryasdust, and guide him in some small measure.
Events rather which, except as characteristic of one memorable Man and King, are mostly now of no memorability whatever.

Crowd all these indiscriminately into sacks, and shake them out pell-mell on us: that is Dryasdust's sweet way.