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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AUTOBIOGKAPHY. FIEST LECTUEE. WONSIEDEL?BIRTH?GRANDFATHER. My Deab Friends, ?It was in the year 1763, on February 15th, that the peace of Hubertsburg came to this world, and after it the present Professor of the history of himself; and this in the month in which the yellow and grey wagtails, the redbreasts, the cranes, and other snipes and -waders, arrived with him, namely, in the month of March, ?and this, too, on that day of the month on which the spoonwort and the trembling poplar the speedwell and the henbit, just come opportunely into blossom for anyone who may wish to strew flowers on the cradle, namely, on the 21st of March, ?and this, too, in the earliest, freshest time of day, namely, at 1.30 A.m.; but what crowns all, is, that the beginning of his life was at the same time the beginning of that Spring. This last idea, that I, the Professor, and the Spring were born together, has been introduced by me in conversation, I suppose, a hundred times already; but I intentionally discharge it here, like a cannon-shot, for the 101st time, in order that by the discharge I may be incapacitated from offering again as a bonmot-bonbon that which has already been handed round to the whole world through the printer's devil. It is a misfortune when Fate herself has laid a pun, like a nest-egg, in the history of anyone, be he the wittiest of men, and let him hatch new ideas by bushels; for on this egg he sits and broods a whole lifetime, in hopes of hatching something. For instance, Ionce knew a barber and a coachman, both of -whom, on being asked what they were called, invariably answered, neither differently, nor more simply or less wittily, than, Ihr gehorsamer Diener (Your humble servant); or else, Ihr Diener Diener (Your servant Diener); now the cause was that each had the .
| ISBN-13 | 9780217858175 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217858171 |
| Weight | 1.06 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 In |
| List Price | $25.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 326 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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