United States or Brunei ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The elasticity of the air enables fishes to rise and sink in water, through the action of the air-bladder. The sudden compression of air liberates its latent heat, and produces fire. On this principle the pneumatic tinder-box is constructed. Brockhaus says that air has as yet been compressed only into one-eighth of its original bulk.
If Heine read Loeben's ballad and saga in "Urania für 1821," he could thereby have learned also of Schreiber's Rheinsagen, for, by a peculiar coincidence for our purpose, Brockhaus discusses these in the introduction in connection with a tragedy by W. Usener, entitled Die Brüder, and based upon one of Schreiber's Sagen.
She and Keith's mother had been girl friends. Now she was running one of the two jewelry stores owned by her brother. She had heard of the position. It was in the office of Herr Brockhaus on the second floor a dealer in tailor's supplies. And she had heard that he was a very nice man. "Do you think I can get it," Keith demanded eagerly. "Why don't you run up this minute and ask," she suggested.
Speak to no one of this plan, which I hope to carry out in due time. Till then keep your head and your health in good condition, and count entirely upon your sincerely devoted and affectionate friend, Herr von Zigesar will write to you direct about the sale of the libretto of "Lohengrin." The best thing would be if Brockhaus would undertake the edition, and Z. has written to him on the subject.
At home I found my two nieces, Clara and Ottilie Brockhaus, the daughters of my sister Louisa. They had been living for a year with a governess in Dresden, and their weekly visits and contagious good spirits delighted me. Every one was in a high state of glee about the revolution; they all heartily approved of the barricades, and felt no scruples about desiring victory for their defenders.
As everything seemed right and nothing inexpedient in my eyes, I actually wrote and asked my sister Luise Brockhaus whether she could not, by talking sensibly to Minna, persuade her to depend on her settled yearly allowance without making any claims on my person in future.
On the way home to the house of my brother-in-law, Hermann Brockhaus, where the whole family were to gather together for an hour, Laube, of whom my mother had been very fond, was my only companion.
Some delay occurring in the publication, Schopenhauer wrote one of his characteristically abusive letters to Brockhaus, his publisher, who retorted "that he must decline all further correspondence with one whose letters, in their divine coarseness and rusticity, savoured more of the cabman than of the philosopher," and concluded with a hope that his fears that the work he was printing would be good for nothing but waste paper, might not be realised.
Loeben has many supporters, though the external evidence, except for the fact that Heine corresponded with Brockhaus, is wholly lacking, and the internal weakens on careful study. It would seem that the striking similarity in form has misled investigators.
It was Christmas Eve, and there was to be the usual Christmas tree, presents, etc., at my brother-in-law's, Friedrich Brockhaus, and both of us naturally wanted to be there.
Word Of The Day