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A group of men, including, among others, Ludwig Börne, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Laube, Theodor Mundt, Ludolf Wienbarg, and Karl Gutzkow, dominate the literary activity of Germany from the beginning of the fourth decade to about the middle of the nineteenth century.
Count Ludolf, who has been a fine painter in his day, says he has used mummy pitch, or whatever it is in which mummies are preserved, as a fine brown paint, like bistre, "only bitter to the taste when one sucks one's brush." Mr. Hay, I find, is private secretary to Lord Melville. It is too much to have a Mr. Hales and a Mr. Hay. To MRS. EDGEWORTH. GATCOMBE PARK, Nov. 9, 1821.
The Abyssinians are said, by Ludolf, to be the greatest fasters in the world. The Wednesdays and Fridays are fasts; the forty days before Easter are rigidly observed as a fast; and from the Thursday preceding Easter till the Sunday, no morsel of meat is to enter the lips, and the prohibition against drink is equally rigorous.
The dried flakes of yellow mud, first besomed and then brushed, raised such a dust, that in the dust, man and horse were lost. Arrived here just at dressing-time. Lord Carrington had asked the Lushingtons and Dr. Holland can't come. Count and Countess Ludolf expected to-morrow: he is ambassador from Sicily. Fanny says you and she met them at Lady Davy's. To MRS. RUXTON.
The Life of Christ, by Ludolf of Saxony. F. Pedro Ibanez. See ch. xxxiii. section 5, ch. xxxvi. section 23. St. Joseph, Avila, where St. Teresa was living at this time. See below, section 41. F. Gaspar de Salazar: see ch. xxxiii. section 9, ch. xxxiv. section 2. 2 Cor. xii. 2: "Sive in corpore nescio, sive extra corpus nescio." See ch. xxviii. Job iv. 15: "Inhorruerunt pili carnis meae."
This entry is followed by another equally pleasing. He dined with his sister-in-law, Mrs Hannah Rothschild, and met there, among others, the Count and Countess Ludolf. In the course of conversation, the Count said that several English physicians had offered to go to Naples, where the cholera was then raging, and assist in relieving the sufferers, but, unfortunately, they had no funds.
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