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| Eliza Buckminster Lee : Life of Jean Paul F. Richter, Compiled From Various Sources [by E.b. Lee], Together With His Autobiography, Tr. From the German [the Tr. | |
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Eliza Buckminster Lee
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Life of Jean Paul F. Richter, Compiled From Various Sources [by E.b. Lee], Together With His Autobiography, Tr. From the German [the Tr. |
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English |
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Paperback |
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300 |
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2009-12-17 |
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1150149981 |
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General Books LLC |
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0.98 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.67 inches |
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Title: Life of Jean Paul F. Richter, Compiled From Various Sources [by E.b. Lee], Together With His Autobiography, Tr. From the German [the Tr. Revised by W. Howitt]. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1845 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PART FIRST. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. FIRST LECTURE. CHAPTER I. WUNSIEDEL BIRTH -- GRANDPARENTS. It was in the year 1763, about the same time with the Peace of Hubertsburg, that the present Professor of his own history came into the world; in the same month that the golden and gray wagtail, the robin-redbreast, the crane, the red-hammer, appeared, and many snipes and woodcocks arrived also; and, indeed, on the same day of the month, in case any one should wish to strew flowers upon the cradle of the newborn, the spoonwort and aspen hung out their tender blossoms -- on the 21st of March; also at the earliest and freshest time of day, namely, at half-past one in the morning. But what crowns all is, that his life and the life of the spring began at the same moment. This last circumstance, that the Professor and the spring were born together, 1 have mentioned in conversation at least a hundred times ; but I fire it off here, as a The peace, that put an end to the Seven Years' War, was signed at Hubertsburg, a Saxon hunting-seat, on the 15th of February, in 1763. -- Tr. salute of honour, the hundred and first time, that, by printing it, I may place it out of my power to offer again as a ben mot, what through the press has gone the round of the whole world. It is a misfortune in the history of a man, even the wittiest, that Fate herself has laid for him a pun as a nest-egg; for upon this egg he sits and broods his life long, and strives to bring ...
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