entsagenden

Updated: May 27, 2025

"With renunciation begins the true life," was the author's favorite maxim; and the second part of "Wilhelm Meister" the Wanderjahre bears the collateral title Die Entsagenden; that is, the "Renouncing" or the "Self-denying."

John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 : Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam