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Updated: May 7, 2025

[Footnote 8: There is a similar tribute to English humor in “Ueber die moralische Schönheit und Philosophie des Lebens.” Altenburg, 1772, p.

Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer - Laurence Sterne in Germany: A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of: England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

One may perhaps trace to Sterne’s blank pages and similar vagaries the eccentricity of the author of “Ueber die Moralische Schönheit und Philosophie des Lebens,” whose eighth chapter is titled “Vom Stolz, eine Erzählung,” this title occupying one page; the next page is blank; the following page is adorned with an urnlike decoration beneath which we read, “Es war einmal ein Priester.” These three pages complete the chapter.

Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer - Laurence Sterne in Germany: A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of: England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century