Denmark And Its People Classic Reprint

Author : H. Weitemeyer
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ISBN 13 : 9781332718535
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Denmark written by H. Weitemeyer and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Denmark: Its History and Topography Language, Literature, Fine-Arts, Social Life and Finance What is the work here offered to the reader? It is, in a few words, a book with no claim to say anything new, and which yet hopes to be something new; it treats of Denmark and a great variety of things Danish, and yet it does not speak the Danish tongue. Without pretending to teach the Danes anything, it addresses foreigners in the three languages of the world. \strangers feeling an interest in our country will find here awell, whence they may draw a goodly draught of intelligence concerning to the soil and the people, its more important institutions and intellectual move ments, seen as it were with Danish eyes. It is to be hoped that in this way foreigners will become acquainted with a little king dom, sharing, as far. As its limited sphere and means will allow, in the great civilisatory currents of our time. They will also acknowledge that, in spite of the hard trials it has undergone, the nation has courageously stood firm, and both mentally and materi ally struggled with success to keep its own rightful place among the states of Europe. The general plan is an old and favorite idea of my publisher, Mr. Cfin'stz'an East, and is in fact but a continuation of his former attempts to make known abroad Denmark as she is, and also to give an idea of the scientific progress she has made. When he proposed that I should help him in carrying out this plan, I sawat once the difficulty of the task. As far as possible there should be a oneness of labor throughout the whole, and yet each section was to be written by a separate individual; so also, the specific Danish should be seen and heard in the foreign garb, and yet without doing violence to the language in which it was to be written. Difficulties like these it was not always possible entirely to overcome, but the will to do what could be done has never been wanting. A word as to the orthography of the proper names. It is un doubtedly most correct to allow the names of places keep the form which they bear in their own country. People are seldom so absurd as to alter names of persons. But why should not also place names be generally respected? Instead in this manner, the method in vogue is often mere caprice. Sometimes the word remains unchanged; sometimes it is only slightly modified; in other cases it is twisted out of all resemblance to the original. All this chaotic spelling should be held in check, especially where Geography is concerned. The reader ought to know what the name is in the country itself, however common such forms as Copenhagen, Funen and Elsinore may be. Where the foreign and home spelling as in the case of Schleswig and Slesvig may be equally admissible, I have naturally preferred the latter. Still, for very good reasons, I have only carried this out more or less consistently in the geographical chapter, Country and people; elsewhere the current orthographies are commonly not interfered with. 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.