On the north she had to face the rulers of the sea, who hampered her commercial expansion; on the west she had to face the restless Gaul; on the south she was confronted with the clerical and Jesuitical empire of the habsburg; on the east with the empire of the Romanovs.
"German Problems and Personalities"
Charles Sarolea
When we consider the individual variations from the family type, there can be here no question of physical heredity, like the lip of the habsburg or the tainted blood of the Spanish Bourbons.
"German Problems and Personalities"
Charles Sarolea
The German is like the symbolical eagle of the habsburg.
"German Problems and Personalities"
Charles Sarolea