But Dr. Lecher is President of the Board of Trade of his city of Brunn, and was master of the situation.
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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Last Updated: February 18, 2009
Still, if Mr. Ruskin had, like Brunn in his Gotteridealen, selected heads like those of the Demeter of Cnidus or the Hera Farnese to illustrate his theme, instead of a series of heads on coins magnified to many times the size for which they were designed, he could hardly have written the passages just quoted.
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Ernest Arthur Gardner
France refuses obstinately to take less than two hundred and thirty- seven millions of francs, and insists on the cession of the fortresses of Gratz and Brunn, which her troops have not even occupied up to this time.
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