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 “Nosegay,” of national tales, in which he takes advantage of the fact that, in Bohemian and several other Slavonic dialects, a pretty little wild flower is called the “Mother’s soul,” will probably be the most attractive means of exhibiting these patriotic feelings to the English eye.

In 1773 the dissolution of the order of the Jesuits took place, and in 1781, the first year of his reign, the Emperor Joseph II. issued the celebrated Patent of Toleration, allowing free liberty of conscience and worship to all non-Catholics. Relics of the old sects sprang up immediately, so that they numbered more than 100,000 souls in Bohemia