Songs of Toil (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Songs of Toil With the fortunes of the family of Wied we are not Specially concerned. The counts played their parts in the conflicts of the Middle Ages, in the Thirty Years' \var, and in the Seven Years' War. In 1784 the countship of Wied was raised by Joseph II. To the dignity of a principality, but at the Congress of Vienna the semi-independence which the house had enjoyed, was taken away and the greater part of its possessions was placed under Prussian dominion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.