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Be it known to all such, that capable men very department of life were never in such request as at this very hour; and never, since the world began, was there an audience so large and so attentive to truth, well wrought and fitted to its purpose, as now. Ludwig van Beethoven. Leben und Schaffen. Herausgegeben von Adolph Bernhard Marx. 2 vols. 8vo. Berlin, 1859. pp. 379, 339.
A poor Indian boy, and a fruit-seller, Juarez found a patron, who saw his cleverness, and gave him an education, and so enabled him to play no common part in his country, the independence of which he seems prepared to destroy, in the hope, perhaps, of securing for it a stable and well-ordered government. Ludwig van Beethoven. Leben und Schaffen. Herausgegeben von Adolph Bernhard Marx, 2 vols. 8vo.
"Die Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, Der mit Eifer sucht muss Leiden schaffen,"
At Foret, the village schoolmaster was shot for refusing to trample under foot the national flag, torn down from the front of the school. At Schaffen, A. Willem was tied to a tree and burnt alive, and two other unfortunate men were buried alive. Madame Luykx and her little girl, 12 years old, were shot together in a cellar.
For the catfish is the demon of the deep, and keeps things lively. After observing that, of all the spirits that deny, He finds a knave the least of a bore, the Lord proceeds: "Des Menschen Thätigkeit kann allzuleicht erschlaffen, Er liebt sich bald die unbedingte Ruh; Drum geb' ich ihm gern den Gesellen zu, Der reizt und wirkt und muss als Teufel, schaffen." Is not the parallel remarkable?
And certainly the first impression made by these two goodly volumes is a very favorable one; for, making due allowance for the music scattered through them with not too lavish a hand, by way of examples, we have still some six hundred solid pages of reading matter, space enough in which to answer many a vexed question, clear up many a dark point, give us the results of widely extended researches, and place Beethoven the Man and the Composer before us in "Leben und Schaffen," in his life and his labors.
"Die Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft der mit Eifer sucht muss Leiden schaffen." German Proverb. Very many years ago, in a valley a few miles from the coast, there stood a French château, beautifully situated in a handsome park near the Norman village of Carolles.
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