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Sybèl's bridal portion consisted of a cow and some sheep her father's waggon which brought her home contained some household articles her mother's care had afforded Melancthon had provided a barrel of pork and one of flour, some tea and molasses, that staple commodity in transatlantic housekeeping. Amongst Sybèl's chattels were a bake-pan and tea-kettle, and thus they commenced the world.
A. Horawitz in Sybel's Historische Zeitschrift, xxv. , 66-101; and P. Joachimsen, Geschichtsauffassung und Geschichtschreibung in Deutschland unter dem Einfluss des Humanismus, pt. 1, 1910. 'People who think that Germany is still as barbarous as it was in the days of Caesar should read what Jerome has to say about it.
In the trial of the king adverse points are slurred over, as if a historian could hold a brief. A more powerful writer of conservative history appeared about the same time in Heinrich von Sybel. About the middle of the fifties, when Sybel's earlier volumes were coming out, the deeper studies began in France with Tocqueville.
Almost the same thing might be said of Sybel's history, not for force of language or depth of thought, but by reason of the immense care with which every passage was considered and all the evidence weighed. The author lived to see himself overtaken and surpassed, for internal history by Taine, and for foreign affairs by Sorel.
Quoted in Von Sybel's Hist. French Rev., iv. 49. Baboeuf is pronounced by La Harpe to have been inspired by the Code de la Nature, which La Harpe impudently set down to Diderot, on whom every great destructive piece was systematically fathered.
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