Publications of the University of Manchester: Historical series, Issue 25Charles Harold Herford The University Press, 1915 - 266 pages |
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... Goethe . All these tendencies summed up in Goethe , whose work at once completes the German eighteenth century , and provides the key to the Germany of the nineteenth . His poetry and science ; Erlebnis and experiment ; his elemental ...
... Goethe . All these tendencies summed up in Goethe , whose work at once completes the German eighteenth century , and provides the key to the Germany of the nineteenth . His poetry and science ; Erlebnis and experiment ; his elemental ...
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... Goethe . Estimate his method and Fichte's , which has been much misapprehended . The essence of this philosophy is the forward , adventurous and realising interpretation of Kant . How " critical . " It affirms reality of perfection ...
... Goethe . Estimate his method and Fichte's , which has been much misapprehended . The essence of this philosophy is the forward , adventurous and realising interpretation of Kant . How " critical . " It affirms reality of perfection ...
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... Goethe , as we know , hoped ? for a time that the French Emperor would give that lead , and would merge all the States of Central and Western Europe in a beneficent unity . Possibly the contrast between the first and second parts of ...
... Goethe , as we know , hoped ? for a time that the French Emperor would give that lead , and would merge all the States of Central and Western Europe in a beneficent unity . Possibly the contrast between the first and second parts of ...
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... Goethe and Schiller at Weimar , as the ideals of primeval song had done with Herder , instru- 1. Lowth's lectures on Hebrew poetry ( De sacra poesi Hebræorum , 1753 ) were the starting point both for the rationalist criticism of the Old ...
... Goethe and Schiller at Weimar , as the ideals of primeval song had done with Herder , instru- 1. Lowth's lectures on Hebrew poetry ( De sacra poesi Hebræorum , 1753 ) were the starting point both for the rationalist criticism of the Old ...
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... Goethe . II . In Goethe indeed , pre - eminently , all the main aspects of the complex transformation I have spoken of were present together . In his long career , stretching from the Seven Years ' War to our first Reform Bill , the ...
... Goethe . II . In Goethe indeed , pre - eminently , all the main aspects of the complex transformation I have spoken of were present together . In his long career , stretching from the Seven Years ' War to our first Reform Bill , the ...
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Page 193 - Und so lang du das nicht hast, Dieses : Stirb und werde ! Bist du nur ein trüber Gast Auf der dunklen Erde.
Page 123 - ... to form and train up the people of the country to be obedient, free, useful, organizable subjects, citizens, and patriots, living to the benefit of the State, and prepared to die for its defence.
Page 143 - In the midst of finitude to be one with the Infinite and in every moment to be eternal is the immortality of religion.
Page 74 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 109 - ... then might we hope to see a generation grow up vigorous both in body and soul, and a better prospect for the future unfold itself.
Page 111 - ... which you have been spreading under the name of true wisdom, and by which you have eradicated religious belief and loyalty from the hearts of my subjects and alienated their affections from my person. This sham education, strutting about like a peacock, has always been odious to me. I hated it already from the bottom of my soul before I came to the throne, and since my accession I have done everything I could to suppress it.
Page 136 - Offer with me reverently,' he says, ' a tribute to the manes of the holy, rejected Spinoza. The high World-Spirit pervaded him; the Infinite was his beginning and his end; the Universe was his only and his everlasting love. In holy innocence and in deep humility he beheld himself mirrored in the eternal world, and perceived how he also was its most worthy mirror. He was full of religion, full of the Holy Spirit. Wherefore, he stands there alone and iReden, p. 68. unequalled; master in his art, yet...
Page 109 - Most is to be expected from the education and instruction of youth. Could we by a method grounded on the internal nature of man develop from within every spiritual gift, rouse and nourish every noble principle of life, carefully avoiding...
Page 33 - Natur hat weder Kern Noch Schale, Alles ist sie mit einem Male. Dich prüfe du nur allermeist, Ob du Kern oder Schale seist.
Page 15 - It is not by speechifying and majorities that the great questions of the time will have to be decided — that was the mistake in 1848 and 1849- — but by blood and iron.