“Through this outrageously iniquitous beginning, I saw the dignity of the throne undermined, already destroyed in advance, and all subsequent steps from this time on unfortunately confirmed all too much these terrible premonitions.”
11 Goethe, Sämtliche Werke, vol. 16, 565–66. “Through this outrageously iniquitous beginning, I saw the dignity of the throne undermined, already destroyed in advance, and all subsequent steps from this time on unfortunately confirmed all too much these terrible premonitions.”