In the spring of 1627, the young pastor entertained the idea of marrying the only daughter of Michael Boehme, burgher and counsellor at Heldburg, whose name was Ursula.
Switzerland was by the peace of Westphalia entirely detached from the Empire; but the political separation had not led the German burgher life into foreign channels.
Thus many of the race of strollers contrived to make their peace with the burgher society.
The distinguished people of Zurich ordered, as early as possible, the quarters where they were to be accommodated in Hinterhof, that they might not be mixed up with the common burgher class, who then put up at the Stadthof.
The burgher life was still insipid, stiff, and phillistroes; but the need of new ideas and deeper excitement had become general.
The war had fearfully loosened the joints of burgher society.
The free bath, called also burgher bath, is under the open heaven.
The old joints of the burghersocieties cracked and threatened to burst asunder.
Burgher Jans, interrupting her before she could finish her sentence, and using in his hurry the very word to which he had objected before.
Certainly; still, would it be believed that the very first person whom Lorischen told the news to was her special antipathy, Burgher Jans?
Burgher Jans' eyes grew quite wide with astonishment beneath the broad rims of his tortoise-shell spectacles, giving him more than ever the appearance of an owl.
They were Lorischen and Burgher Jans, who both tried to speak together, the result being a confused jangle of tongues from which Madame Dort could learn nothing.
He would have been at it again to-day, only Burgher Jans' dog came in at the nick of time and scared him away!
The Burgher felt himself a person of importance, on account of his opinion being consulted; so he drew himself up to his full height--just five feet one inch!
Burgher Jans looked startled at this announcement, losing a trifle of his beaming smile.
Next to the burgher came a man of learning, a doctor of the University of Louvain, who was traveling with his clerk.
The sons of noble families enrolled themselves in Kilinski's burgher regiment, eager to serve under his command.
Mr. Krüger: 'We make no difference so far as burgher rights are concerned.
We do not live in burgher circumstances, and it would be ridiculous in my position to play the jealous husband who views every attention paid his wife with suspicion.
And you will admit that it is very contradictory to boast of your burgher pride when you have given your hand to a man of the old nobility.
If any Christian burgher had committed a like offence, no less severe a penalty would assuredly have been meted out to him.
Groote, who belonged to a rich burgher family, was born in the year 1340 at Deventer in Holland.
In no town where a guild was established was any outside painter suffered to ply his craft for money, and no man could become a member of the local guild unless he were a burgher of the town by right of birth or of purchase.
But although the burgher looked askance at the old religious orders, for some reason or other his antipathy to the monk did not extend itself to the friar.
No less inconsequent was the patrician burgher in his dealings with the Church--with one hand he smote her in the mouth and with the other he loaded her with benefits.
He was not necessarily or even usually a burgher of the city over which he presided.
The burgher immediately drew from his pocket a small ivory box, containing three pieces of metal, of the colour of brimstone, and extremely heavy; and assured Helvetius, that of them he could make as much as twenty tons of gold.
We were joined on the way, for the sake of protection, by a burgher fleeing from his farm, with his wife and family, and three thousand sheep.
At Shiloh they actually garrisoned and held their chapel for some time against their Burgher forces, though they had but shortly before received the sacrament and sworn solemn allegiance.
Our reduced commissariat was replenished from the neighbouring and very appropriately named station of Smithfield, where a large magazine had been previously formed, guarded till our arrival by the Burgherforce of the Field-Cornetcy.
Furthermore, the burgher was realistic and required a representation of the world he saw about him.
Those are thy proud burgher notions," said Hans, a little nettled.
The two women greeted each other ceremoniously and courteously, as became two German housewives of good burgher stock.
He recognizes that I am no peasant, but the daughter of a good burgher house.
Dainty burgher ways," Hans called them, but he submitted, and Gottlieb was greatly comforted, and thought his old friend a long way advanced in his transformation into an angel.
Frederick of the Iron Tooth is a burgher of Berlin who leads a revolt against the Elector.
It was the young English burgher who had first attacked the lion, and as they approached the wagon he sat up with a jerk and looked eagerly at Jack.
Then a large open space was reached, evidently in the centre of the town, and a burgher was seen galloping towards them, evidently with orders for them to halt alongside the others already collected there.
A second later five men entered, and one of them they recognised at once as a prominent Boer general, the commander of the burgher forces in Natal.
You are now sufficiently well to leave this hospital and make room for a burgher who has just arrived from Natal in a serious condition, and your comrade will also be moved to-morrow.
After all, it will be some consolation to you to know that the youngburgher you saved is an Englishman by birth.
To all appearances he was a young Boer burgher bound for the wars, so that even if he did happen to run across anyone, he was not likely to be recognised in the darkness as an Englishman.
Every now and again, when the whinnying of the mares was at its worst, some burgher or other would give vent to an exclamation of impatience.
Nearly every burgher had one or two extra horses, mostly mares with foals, that we had commandeered and trained during our retreat on the Hoogeveld.
The enemy had surrounded us in the night, and eachburgher had to do his utmost to escape from out of the half-circle.
The burgher who had gone to the kloof tried to persuade the rest to cross with him to the other side, as he was sure the enemy were not inclined to make any resistance there.
Therefore Oom Dietlof will take this opportunity to give his nephews in South Africa some practical hints that may be of use to a burgher in his travels or in a war.
One of the most curious traits in the burgher character has been displayed in the manner of his capitulation.
Yet at this period of the war we were practising both these expedients, and wondering why the Burgher was not subjugated, and why the income-tax steadily increased.
Yes, sir; I gave him the tameburgher Stephanus whom we roped in at Richmond Road.
This best horse had caught the eye of a Winburg burgher in Philippolis, and he had relieved the Basuto of it, leaving him to make his way back upon some scarecrow.
The Volksraad shall have the power to pass a burgher or commando law for the protection and safety of this land.
He must have attained the age of thirty years, and need not be a burgher of the State at the time of his nomination, and must be a member of a Protestant Church, and have no dishonouring sentence pronounced against him.
The members of the First Volksraad are chosen by those enfranchised burghers who have obtained the burgher right, either before this law came into operation, or thereafter by birth, and have reached the age of sixteen years.
To be capable of receiving the appointment, it shall not be required to have been for any time a burgher of the State.
Every one who is born in the country and has attained the age of twenty-one years, or has become naturalized, shall be a burgher qualified to vote.
In front, there was beat some thundering engines of warlike music, which was cut occasionally by sharp screams of small fifes, blown into by the burgher amateurs of that lively musical machine.
The recommendation was instantly seized by the distracted Mayor, and a shout of the burgher forces, and an accompanying peal from the drums and fifes, shewed the desire of the men to fulfil the wish of their master.
The one argument which we can find to support this view lies in the fact that while the chief Guelf names are those of burgher families, many of the leading Ghibeline houses were undoubtedly of German origin.
For this is the aspect in which the Ghibelines must have presented themselves to a Florentine burgher of the year 1300.
Nowhere can you collect the stress-memorials and siege-medals of Poverty more pleasantly and philosophically than at College; the Academic burgher exhibits to us how many humorists and Diogeneses Germany has in it.
Thou think'st it is in England as in Flanders, where a city-bred burgher of Ghent, Liege, or Ypres is as distinct an animal from a knight of Hainault as a Flanders wagon horse from a Spanish jennet.
Belin signed the warrant, and sent a young ass of the burgher guard after Mar.
I made out, despite the thickening twilight, the familiar uniform of the burgher guard; M.
The burgher looked up the street and down the street, after M.
Boxer, showing his white teeth and blubber lips in a furious grin, whilst the eyes which he fastened on the poor burgher blazed up once more, as if he was about to annihilate him.
Make money of that;" and after having discharged this pleasantry at the black, the worthy burgher made a hasty exit down stairs, followed at a more dignified pace by his companions.
The sergeant knew him for Jehan Brosse, the bandy-legged tailor of the passage off the Corraterie, a sound burgher and a good man whom it were a shame to exclude.
When the time of grace had elapsed, with a pike-point a few inches from his back and the gleaming eyes of an avenging burgher behind it, he fled shrieking round the table.
