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Fin de l’Indépendance Bohême. Vol I. Georges de Podiébrad - Les Jagellons

Author(s): Ernest Denis / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 1890

In an earlier study, I wrote about the origins of the Hussite Reformation and the early struggles it sustained. I would like to tell one day the causes of the contemporary Renaissance, show the perseverance and heroic faith of Palatsky, his collaborators and his successors, the incredible difficulties overcome and the unexpected successes obtained. The task I undertake today is sadder: the Hussite and Protestant Reformation ends in abortion and disaster; What were the causes of this bankruptcy and the distant reasons for this defeat? By what faults did the Czechs deserve their misfortune? What was the share of responsibility of men and what, that of events? This is what I have tried to extract from the history of Bohemia in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Fin de l’Indépendance Bohême. Vol II. Les premiers Habsbourgs, La Défenestration de Prague

Author(s): Ernest Denis / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 1890

LA BOHÊME DEPUIS LA MONTAGNE-BLANCHE. Vol I. Le Triomphe de l’Église. Le Centralisme.

Author(s): Ernest Denis / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 1903

I intended to write a book in good faith. I always said what I believed to be the truth, even when I knew she would upset my dear friends; I have tried to judge without injustice the men who are most hateful to me. As for the serene indifference that a certain school claims to claim from historians, I do not believe it and I have never encountered it. Between executioners and martyrs, between tyrants and victims, it is not possible for me to remain neutral; I hate oppression in all its forms, I believe in the triumph of justice, and that is why the cause of Bohemia is dear to me. If she succumbs, which seems impossible to me, the share of inequity, already so great in the world, would be increased. // I did not cover up any of the mistakes of the Czech patriots; I still believe they wrote one of the most beautiful pages in human history. When the day comes when the nations, disillusioned with dreams of false glory, understand that the common interest requires respect for all freedoms, when enlightened consciences have broken the altars of false gods, we will place in the first row of evocative of the new world the Dobrovsky, the Havlíček and the Palacký. They taught us the power of law and the power of dedication; to triumph over the belated hatreds which persist in contesting a victory which is now certain, the Czechs have only to draw inspiration from their lessons. For me, I am convinced that by spreading their names and their doctrines, I will have contributed to uplift the souls of all who will read me and to free them from the prejudices of hatred and pride.

LA BOHÊME DEPUIS LA MONTAGNE-BLANCHE. Vol II. La Renaissance Tchèque. Vers le Fédéralisme.

Author(s): Ernest Denis / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 1903

I intended to write a book in good faith. I always said what I believed to be the truth, even when I knew she would upset my dear friends; I have tried to judge without injustice the men who are most hateful to me. As for the serene indifference that a certain school claims to claim from historians, I do not believe it and I have never encountered it. Between executioners and martyrs, between tyrants and victims, it is not possible for me to remain neutral; I hate oppression in all its forms, I believe in the triumph of justice, and that is why the cause of Bohemia is dear to me. If she succumbs, which seems impossible to me, the share of inequity, already so great in the world, would be increased. // I did not cover up any of the mistakes of the Czech patriots; I still believe they wrote one of the most beautiful pages in human history. When the day comes when the nations, disillusioned with dreams of false glory, understand that the common interest requires respect for all freedoms, when enlightened consciences have broken the altars of false gods, we will place in the first row of evocative of the new world the Dobrovsky, the Havlíček and the Palacký. They taught us the power of law and the power of dedication; to triumph over the belated hatreds which persist in contesting a victory which is now certain, the Czechs have only to draw inspiration from their lessons. For me, I am convinced that by spreading their names and their doctrines, I will have contributed to uplift the souls of all who will read me and to free them from the prejudices of hatred and pride.

Lieder eines Sklaven

Author(s): Svatopluk Čech / Language(s): German / Publication Year: 1897

RE-DIGITZED COPY OF THE GERMAN VERSION OF SVATOPLUK ČECH’S BOOKLET OF POETRY, PUBLISHED IN 1897 BY J. H. W. DIETZ IN STUTTGART.EXTRACT FROM THE 1987 PUBLISHER’S INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK: If one wants to describe the basic tone of Slavic poetry in two words, one must say: it is the tone of a peculiarly gloomy melancholy that echoes everywhere in these songs of a family of peoples, constantly pressed down and oppressed by superior nations, but it is a tone that occasionally turns into its opposite: the outbursts of despair and determined ire. It is only too understandable beside the gloomy melancholy, that tone of desperate wrath. Who never, or only fleetingly, has seen the bright, clear day of freedom, will sing much more softly as the others when complaining and resenting himself, but will as well sing much harder when rumbling and feeling anger. For misfortune kills the midtones and sharpens the extremes of sensation.Having this in mind it can easily be understood that the consciousness of togetherness, which is erupting today among the opressed people in all countries, must be mirrored, above all, by the socialistically geared translations of literature, especially the literature of the Slavic peoples. It is this consciousness that determines the present (entirely free) transmission of the "Songs of a slave" by Swatopluk Čech from Bohemian into German.

Masaryk jako Sociolog

Author(s): Emanuel Chalupný / Language(s): Czech / Publication Year: 1937

Digitized copy of the Booklet published in Prague 1937 by A. S. Melantrich Publisher. FOREWORD OF THE AUTHOR: During some celebrations of Masaryk, I was entrusted with the task of explaining the significance of his sociological work. In 1925 it was a joint meeting of the "Masaryk Sociological Society" and "Social Institute", which was founded on March 5, E. Štern about Masaryk as a Social Politician. In 1930, the celebration was held at the "Free School of Political Science" on March 11, with individual speeches (Dr. V. Joachim, Dr. K. Hoch, Dr. H. Trauba, Dr. MA Zimmermann and Dr. J. Folprechta) were published in 5th issue of 2nd annual volume of the "Free School of Political Science Magazine". In 1935 it was again a joint meeting of "Masaryk Sociological Society" and "Social Institute" on March 5, which, after my speech, lectured Dr. Ed. Beneš about Masaryk as a politician, and the celebrated meeting of "Free Schools Polit. nauk "on March 6 with Dr. V. Joachima, Dr. W. Wohryzka, Dr. K. Hoch, O. Graf and ms. Two of these speeches, which I have written in writing, I present here, and I also re-write the article from "New Freedom" 1925, which it expediently supplements; others were spoken with the floor and not enrolled. The first edition of this book was published in the diary "Tribune" on 6 and 7 March 1925, the second in the New Freedom Week of 1925, the third in the "Free School of Political Science Magazine." Because I have always tried to make it possible he did not repeat, on the contrary, that my own speeches about the same subject were supplemented, I hope that even in this overlapping overprint, the public will find the necessary lessons quite comprehensible.

Speaking To My Country

Author(s): Ian Masaryk / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 1944

Ian Masaryk, as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Czechoslovak Exile Government in London, had started at the beginning of World-War II a series of speaches, which were broadcasted every Wednesday by the B. B. C. Later, the intervals of the speaches became longer and mor irregular. In 1944 a collection of these speaches has been published in print by LINCOLNS-PRAGER (PUBLISHERS) LIMITED, London, with a foreword by Anthony Eden, the British Minister for Foreign Affairs. From A Eden's Foreword: "In this book we find Mr. Masaryk’s commentary on world events, delivered week by week as the war years unfolded. It was to him with his honoured name and reputation that his countrymen chiefly looked for truth and enlightenment on world affairs. In the midst of the spiritual and intellectual darkness which was, and still is, imposed on the occupied territories, the Czechoslovaks turned to Mr. Masaryk for the facts and for a reliable interpretation of those facts from the Czechoslovak standpoint. The present volume reveals the extent to which Mr. Masaryk met their need. Without doubt these talks have played a great part in maintaining the steadfast courage of the Czechoslovak people during their long ordeal." This file is a rer-digitized copy of the Lincolns-Prager book.

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Author(s): Alois Muna / Language(s): Russian / Publication Year: 1918