A Short History Of Germany Vol 2 Classic Reprint

Author : Paul Fredericq
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528150552
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Study of History in Germany and France, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) written by Paul Fredericq and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Study of History in Germany and France, Vol. 6 This course of M. Von Treitschke's is marvellous. The professor is completely deaf and never hears himself speak; his delivery is extremely monotonous; his voice anxious, sometimes harsh and choked like that of a deaf mute; there is no pause, not even for a second, between the different phrases or parts of a phrase; periods follow one another in closesuccession, interrupted from time to time only by his breathing, which usually breaks a phrase in two without any logical reason; his gesture is always the same and his head shakes continually as if from some nervous affection. In spite of his expression of sympathy and majestic kindness, the first impres sion he makes is very strange. The visitor is inclined to ask how lectures thus given attract such an audience and win such renown throughout Germany. But at the end of a very few minutes the stranger is under the charm. He forgets the voice, the gesture, the speaker himself; for these confused and anxious phrases, poured out in painful haste, are masterpieces. The listener is carried away by the originality and daring frankness of the ideas, the poetic beauty of their form and the generous warmth of feeling they express. He accepts the strange-sounding voice without further notice, just as one unresistingly submits to the inarticulate and outrageous speech of the Englishman who insists upon using his own mother tongue. The ear once accustomed, the listener sits spellbound up to the moment when M. Treitschke stops speaking with no other warning than his final silence. One ought thus to pass from the first disap pointed astonishment to the succeeding enthusiastic admiration in order to appreciate the fascination of this unique course. I leave unmentioned the well-known reputation of this professor. Even those whom he crushes with his hardest criticisms still remain his most earnest auditors. There is, moreover, in his clear eye and his frank, expressive face a good faith that dis arms in advance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.