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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: CHAPTER II. From 1775 To 1779. Schiller had just reached the age of sixteen, having been three years at the academy, when it was transferred to Stuttgart. For long past the drawbacks of distance from the capital, as also the need of millicient accommodation, had been subjects of annoyance to tho duko, who, however, while spending all upon the Ilohenhcim estate, never thought of adding to or of enlarging the building at Solitude. The oiler made to him by the town of Stuttgart, of excellent and capacious premises, in every way fitted for his academy, was therefore a highly desirable one. Since the court had left Stuttgart, the new barracks at the back of the castle had remained tenanlless. To this building, on the 18th of November, tho cadets, some 330 in number, marched, together with their principals, masters, and ushers. At ten o'clock on that day the duke betook himself to the Hasenberg, where he held a parade of the town soldier)-; here, too, he received the pupils, and rode into Stuttgart at their head, amid universal acclamation. Outside the academy he was welcomed by the scholars' parents; within it, by the masters and professors. After a short service, he, in person, led the several divisions to their respective dormitories, showing to each boy his place in bedroom and in dining-hall. Many of the parents were present, and Captain Schiller was, doubtless, among their number. He had left the service, receiving the appoint- ROBERTA SARAH TWYFURD MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY i rv Via ment of intendant at Castle Solitude. Thither, from his own well - stocked and well - tended orchard, he transplanted some four thousand apple and pear-trees; as a recompense, he for three years claimed the profit derived from all the adjacent grass-land. This hronght him iii the sum of ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217910385 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217910386 |
| Weight | 1.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.22 In |
| List Price | $29.50 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 546 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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