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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: SECOND LECTUEE. EMBRACING THE PERIOD FROM THE 1ST OF AUGUST, 1765, TO THE 9TH OF JANUARY, 1776?JODITZ VILLAGE IDYLS. MUCH HONOURED LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, You now meet the Professor of his Autobiographical History iu the village of Joditz, whither he accompanied his parents in woman's hood and girl's frock. The Saale, which took its rise, like myself, in the Fichtelgebirge, had followed me thither, just as in later years it flowed past Hof when I went to live there. This river is the most beautiful, or at any rate the longest, river in Joditz, flowing round the town by the mountain side. The village itself is crossed by a little brook, with a wooden bridge. A commonplace castle and parsonage might well be the most important buildings here. The suburbs were not more than twice the size of the village itself, if one did not climb the mountain side; and yet to the Professor of his own history that village is of yet more importance than the town of his birth, for in it he passed the most important time of his life, namely, the boy-Olympiads. I never could give my sympathy to those nineteen towns which quarrelled (according to Suidas) for the honour of being the birthplace of Homer, just as little as with those Dutch places, all of which would wish (according to Bayle) to have given birth to Erasmus. What can there be of such importance in the first day before or after nine months. At the place of the grave the inhabitants might have more share in the merit?and also in the blame?than at the place of the cradle. Although, on the whole, many princes are lorn in capital towns, yet London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna are not proud of this; for if they were, then, by converse reasoning, would all those towns and villages where great rogues have been born have to be ashamed. The b...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217858212 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021785821X |
| Weight | 1.02 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $23.84 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 312 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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