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master of our language (to avoid the expression rheto- 

 rician), upon my manner of speaking of the King, and 

 my relations with him. In praising that with which the 

 party praised is but scantily supplied, we point him to 

 the honorable road, and justify ourselves before the 

 people. A man of the woods, who is supposed to have 

 been tamed at court, is in need of such justification. 

 Madame Quitzow, whom. I could not sooner obtain from 

 the King, I now repose in your hands, as your own. 

 Our former minister, General Thiele, was firmly persuaded 

 that the Guizots of the neighborhood of Montpellier 

 were disguised remnants, softened in pronunciation, 

 Frenchified and Protestantized, of the emigrated Quit- 

 zo\vs* from Langkloder. And your poor excellent Dora, 

 who pities all your friends for the sufferings she knows 

 so well how to alleviate ! Give her my kindest regards. 



Your faithful 



A. HUMBOLDT. 



AT NIGHT. 



The Grand Duke, whom you escaped, sends much 

 love. He has curious theories, probably imbibed some- 

 where or other (Bosotia was near to ancient Attica), 



* A Brandenburg family of the Middle Ages, who came near hang- 

 ing one of the Electors of Brandenburg, predecessor of the Kings of 

 Prussia. They were representatives of those " Kobber Knights" who 

 long successfully resisted the introduction of regular government by 

 the Electors. Tr. 



