"Pressburg" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reconstituted in New England. By banishing political discussion from the Diet to the county sessions, Metternich only intensified the provincial spirit of opposition which he thought to quell. When the Hungarian Diet reassembled at Pressburg at last, the new spirit showed itself in the demand of the Magyars for the substitution of their own language, in all public debates, for the older customary Latin. The government speakers, who attempted to address the deputies in Latin, were howled ...
— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson |
