The Secret Chancellery of Anhalt

A Sincere Warning.

...moners will have to give an account and show what advantage, security, utility, profit, and prosperity they have gained thereby, and how they intend to replace such almost insurmountable expenses.
    This should break the heart of a faithful patriot: that this dance original: Reyen, a traditional circular dance, here used metaphorically for the cycle of political maneuvering and all this game—into which the Roman Empire, the Estates Stände of both religions, as well as Bohemia, Hungary, and the other incorporated and allied original: incorporirte, confœderirte Austrian hereditary lands have been plunged—was started, led, whistled, and played only by a few persons. These individuals were quite differently minded original: intentionirt in their hearts and directed original: dirigirt their actions original: actiones in a hidden manner. Yet, they acted quite otherwise at Imperial, Circle, and Electoral Diets Tägen, both orally and in writing, through open and sometimes hateful printed treatises original: Tracktat, using words that were as elegant, pious, and devout as they were seemingly faithful and upright to the fatherland and the common wealth—though they were but "painted" meaning deceptive or superficial German words, arguments original: deductionen, presentations, and various missions. They claimed these were solely for the sake of the common, endangered original: periclitierenden Protestant original: Euangelischen cause, German liberty original: libertet, foreign domination original: dominats, and the preservation original: conseruation of the Electoral and Princely...

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