and Welfdom, William THE LION of Scotland, were not, either of
them, specially leonine men: nor had the PLANTAGENETS, or Geoffrey
of Anjou, any connection with the PLANT of BROOM, except wearing a
twig of it in their caps on occasion. Men are glad to get some
designation for a grand Albert they are often speaking of, which
shall distinguish him from the many small ones. Albert "the Bear,
DER BAR," will do as well as another.

It was this one first that made Brandenburg peaceable and notable.
We might call him the second founder of Brandenburg; he, in the
middle of the Twelfth Century, completed for it what Henry the
Fowler had begun early in the Tenth. After two hundred and fifty
years of barking and worrying, the Wends are now finally reduced
to silence; their anarchy well buried, and wholesome Dutch cabbage
planted over it: Albert did several great things in the world;
but, this, for posterity, remains his memorable feat. Not done
quite easily; but, done: big destinies of Nations or of Persons
are not founded GRATIS in this world. He had a sore toilsome time
of it, coercing, warring, managing among his fellow-creatures,
while his day's work lasted,--fifty years or so, for it began
early. He died in his Castle of Ballenstadt, peaceably among the
Hartz Mountains at last, in the year 1170, age about sixty-five.
It was in the time while Thomas a Becket was roving about the
world, coming home excommunicative, and finally getting killed in
Canterbury Cathedral;--while Abbot Samson, still a poor little
brown Boy, came over from Norfolk, holding by his mother's hand,
to St. Edmundsbury; having seen "SANTANAS s with outspread wings"
fearfully busy in this world.