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_Heiliggeistkirche_ to listen to the address of the _Geheimrath_, Dr. Kuno Fischer, on the fate of the Palatinate and Heidelberg, which was preceded and followed by music.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various
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Oriental questions; he had to do with some public institution in London that welcomed Indian students; he was a Geheimrath --
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Sittmann was made a baron (of Wirtemberg, not of the Empire); Schütz became Geheimrath and personal secretary to his Highness; Madame de Ruth was
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Geheimrath has decoyed you from your home and your Grossherzoglicher
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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The explanation of these anomalies is to be found in the fact that the Russian tchins, like the German honorary titles -- Hofrath, Staatsrath, Geheimrath -- of which they are a literal translation, indicate not actual office, but simply official rank.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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Geheimrath, "for all the world as though she had been talking that way the whole time.
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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“Absolutism with us is closely connected with the omnipotence of the Geheimrath and the conceited omniscience of the Professors who sit behind the green table, a product, and I venture to maintain a necessary product, of the Prussian method of education.
Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire Headlam, James W 1899
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