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Pelzel's volumes, is full of soul-stirring passages. He has been compared to Hannibal for the sagacity and variety of his stratagems, and the extraordinary readiness with which he created to himself resources in circumstances of doubt and difficulty. Like other great men, and especially like those greatest of men, who have devoted themselves, and sacrificed themselves to an unsuccessful popular cause, he has been delivered over to ages of calumny, from which some after and more enduring ages of glorious fame will rescue his memory. To the name of Žižka, rebel attaches—to that of John Hus, heretic—to that of George Poděbrad, usurper. Time will tear away the scrolls which falsehood has attached to their histories—and write Patriot—Reformer—Hero:—and the words will be indelible.
