o, taking him aside, "read

ether I should now rejoice that an old taste and occupation of my youth has been by chance renewed. In the meantime, all that I have heard of these

better spend your time than by casting everything aside, and retiring to the solitude of your old habitation, to look into the magic lantern of that unknown world. It is sinful of you to waste you

and hunt. Wilhelm looked after him with sadness. He would fain have spoken much with t

embles a traveler, who, at but a short distance from the inn he is to rest at, falls into the water: were any one to catch him then and pull him to the bank, with one good wetting

he easy dignity which they contrived to give it. An army on its march, a princely hero at the head of it, such a multitude of cooperating warriors, such a multitude of crowding worshipers, exalted his imagination. In thi

that he could go no further. His whole soul was in commotion. He sought an opportunity to speak with J

ould not remain insensible to the charms of the mos

estial genius descending among men, to make them by the mildest instructions acquainted with themselves. They are no fictions! You would think, while reading them, you stood before the enclosed awful Books of Fate, while the whirlwind of most impassioned life w

ng our friend's. "This is as it should be! And the con

word of solution. His men appear like natural men, and yet they are not. These, the most mysterious and complex productions of creation, here act before us as if they were watches, whose dial-plates and cases were of crystal, which pointed out according to their use their course of the hours and minutes; while at the same time you could discern the combination of wheels and springs that tur

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ation by Carlyle was published in Edinburgh in 1824 and was contempora