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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: BOOK II. CHAPTER I. GENESIS. In a psychological point of view, it is perhaps questionable whether from birth and genealogy, how closely scrutinised soever, much insight is to be gained. Nevertheless, as in every phenomenon the Beginning remains always the most notable moment; so, with regard to any great man, we rest not till, for our scientific profit or not, the whole circumstances of his first appearance in this Planet, and what manner of Public Entry he made, are with utmost completeness rendered manifest. To the Genesis of our Clothes-Philosopher, then, be this First Chapter consecrated. Unhappily, indeed, he seems to be of quite obscure extraction; uncertain, we might almost say, whether of any: so that this Genesis of his can properly be nothing but an Exodus (or transit out of Invisibility into Visibility); whereof the preliminary portion is nowhere forthcoming. ' In the village of Entepfuhl, ' thus writes he, in the Bag Libra, on various Papers, which we arrange with difficulty, ' dwelt Andreas ' Futteral and his wife; childless, in still seclusion, and cheerful ' though now verging towards old age. Andreas had been grena- ' dier Sergeant, and even regimental Schoolmaster under Frederick ' the Great; but now, quitting the halbert and ferule for the spade ' and pruning-hook, cultivated a little Orchard, on the produce of ' which he, Cincinnatus-like, lived not without dignity. Fruits, ' the peach, the apple, the grape, with other varieties came in their ' season; all which Andreas knew how to sell: on evenings he ' smoked largely, or read (as beseemed a regimental Schoolmaster), ' and talked to neighbours that would listen about the Victory of ' Kossbach; and how Fritz the Only (der Einzige) had once with ' his own royal lips spoken to him, had been pleased t..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217044103 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217044107 |
| Weight | 1.12 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.77 In |
| List Price | $25.41 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 344 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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