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1272. "Sic facta tulerunt."3. Bogdan Jański has in mind the counsel of his friends at the time of farewellin Prague, October 20, 1828. They tried to dissuade him from sacrificinghimself for Alexandra by marrying her, for this could harm his career asprofessor at the Polytechnic Institute.4. Andrew Radwański /born 1801 in Tyniec/ - a secondary school colleague ofLouis Królikowski from Kielce, who began his studies at the University thesame year as Jański /1823/; he studied philosophy.5. A quote from chapter II of Dziady by A. Mickiewicz.6. He is speaking here about his marriage to Alexandra Josephine TheresaZawadzka on October 23, 1828 in Przewodowo. The expression "obliged todo" was meant to excuse him before his colleagues who did not understand hissacrifice.7. Colonel August Zawadzki, Alexandra's father. He used his horses to get asfar as Strzegocin, where he transferred to a rented wagon. Alexandra returnedto Kozłowo with her sister Caroline and husband Francis.8. Bogdan Jański lists here the intellectual lights of Berlin at the time: GeorgeWilhelm Frederick Hegel /1770-1831/, the German philosopher who was theoriginator of dialectic philosophy, and the author of such famous works asPhenomenology of the Spirit, The Study of Logic, and Lectures on thePhilosophy of History.