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The blossoms could be arranged here in the forest meadow under the shade of the thick hazel-bushes which bordered the pine wood. After Eva had thrown hers on the grass, she asked the nun to do the same with her own motley bundle. Between the thicket and the road stood a little chapel which had been erected by the Mendel family on the spot where a son of old Herr Nikolaus had been murdered.
We asked if we might make some people, and he said yes, and told Seppi to make some cannon for the walls, and told Nikolaus to make some halberdiers, with breastplates and greaves and helmets, and I was to make some cavalry, with horses, and in allotting these tasks he called us by our names, but did not say how he knew them.
Liberal Catholics reverence him as one of the deepest thinkers of the Church; but the fame of Giordano Bruno, a more brilliant but much less original figure, has hitherto stood in the way of the general recognition of his great importance for modern philosophy. R. Falckenberg, Grundzüge der Philosophie des Nikolaus Cusanus mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Lehre vom Erkennen, Breslau, 1880.
The period of the real dominance of political poetry began with 1840, when a petty official in a Rhenish village, Nikolaus Becker, electrified Germany with a martial poem, The German Rhine, inspired by French threats of war with Prussia and of the conquest of the Rhine territory.
I gave him seven fish-hooks all I had and made him take them; and Seppi gave him his new knife and a humming-top painted red and yellow atonements for swindles practised upon him formerly, as I learned later, and probably no longer remembered by Nikolaus now.
The house is mortgaged for it, and we've no home for our heads if we don't pay to-morrow. And that four ducats is all we've got in the " "It's yours, every bit of it, and you've got to take it we are bail that it's all right. Aren't we, Theodor? Aren't we, Seppi?" We two said yes, and Nikolaus stuffed the money back into the shabby old wallet and made the owner take it.
His mother had passed away, but his father was living, and had come, on one occasion, to Eisenstadt to see him. His brother Michael who had now become Concertmeister in Salzburg, spent several happy days with him also. The summer residence of Prince Nikolaus at Esterházy had been rebuilt, enlarged and was more magnificent than Eisenstadt. The music was more elaborate.
My mother says she is so sweet and so lovely that she is not like any other child. She says she will be the pride of the village when she grows up; and its idol, too, just as she is now." "I shall change her future." "Make it better?" I asked. "Yes. And I will change the future of Nikolaus."
We said we must be with him all the time; we must have all of him we could; the days were precious now. Yet we did not go to seek him. It would be like meeting the dead, and we were afraid. We did not say it, but that was what we were feeling. And so it gave us a shock when we turned a curve and came upon Nikolaus face to face. He shouted, gaily: "Hi-hi! What is the matter? Have you seen a ghost?"
R. Eucken, Beiträge zur Geschichte der neueren Philosophie, Heidelberg, 1886, p. 6 seq.; Joh. Uebinger, Die Gotteslehre des Nikolaus Cusanus, Münster, 1888. Scharpff, Des Nikolaus von Cusa wichtigste Schriften in deutscher Uebersetzung, Freiburg i. Human knowledge and the relation of God to the world are the two poles of the Cusan's system. He distinguishes four stages of knowledge.
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