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Gellert was himself the best example of pure moral teaching; and the best which a teacher can give his pupils is faith in the victorious might, and the stability of the eternal moral laws. His lessons were for the Life, for his life in itself was a lesson.
And now tell me, cannot I give you something, or obtain something for you? You are a local magistrate, I presume?" "Why so?" "You look like it: you might be." Christopher had taken his hat into his hands, and was crumpling it up now; he half closed his eyes, and with a sly, inquiring glance, he peered at Gellert.
"I care more for ancient than modern history," said Gellert, who did not desire to follow the king upon the slippery field of politics. "You, then, are accurately acquainted with the ancients?" said the king. "Which, then, do you think the greatest and most renowned of that epoch Homer or Virgil?" "Homer, I think, merits the preference, because he is original."
The reverence with which Gellert was regarded by all young people was extraordinary. Much has been written about the condition of German literature at that time. I need only state how it stood towards me. The literary epoch in which I was born was developed out of the preceding one by opposition.
With the pressure which Gellert and the peasant exchanged commenced a mighty change in universal life, which never more can cease to act. "Permit me to enter your room?" said Christopher, and Gellert nodded assent.
Readers have heard of Gellert; there are, or there were, English Writings about him, LIVES, or I forget what: and in his native Protestant Saxony, among all classes, especially the higher, he had, in those years and onwards to his death, such a popularity and real splendor of authority as no man before or since.
Christopher laughed aloud, and the wood-measurer looked at him with amazement; for such particularity generally provoked a quarrel. Christopher had still some logs over; these he kept by him on the wagon. At this moment the servant Sauer came up, and asked to whom the wood belonged. "To Professor Gellert," answered Christopher. "The man's mad! it isn't true.
It was your own fault if I was compelled to read after you came." Gellert smiled. "What book were you reading so earnestly, my old friend?" "The 'Swedish Countess, professor. You know it is my favorite book. I am reading it now for the twelfth time, and I still think it the most beautiful and touching, as well as the most sensible book I ever read.
"That is great praise, great praise," said the king, whose large eyes fastened themselves more attentively upon Gellert's modest, expressive face. "You are then called the German La Fontaine? Have you ever read La Fontaine?" "Yes, sire, but I did not imitate him," said Gellert, ingenuously, "I am an original." The king nodded gayly; Gellert's quick frankness pleased him.
I visited Professor Gellert at Leipzig, and asked his advice concerning what branch of literature he thought it was probable I might succeed in. He most approved my fables and tales, and blamed the excessive freedom with which I spoke in political writings. I neglected his advice, and many of the ensuing calamities were the consequence.
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