On Two Continents
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from On Two Continents: Memories of Half a Century My childhood belongs to a bygone time. In those days the power of steam had hardly been put to the test; the electric spark had produced none of its wonders. In the evening people sat by a tallow candle, which was ignited with a paper lighter, and no household was without its flint and steel as well as its punk or tinder for starting the fire. The snuffers, on their metal stand, lay beside the candle - and not for show alone. Goethe had even sighed in rhyme: "Who, forsooth, could make a better invention Than a candle that burns without snuffers´ attention!" So primitive was life then in contrast with the present, when we suffer under the high pressure of a highly complex existence, that, for instance, on the occasion of a visit which my father paid to the wife of the Cabinet Minister, he found that very aristocratic lady knitting a stocking by the light of a single tallow candle. Combined with this simplicity of living, people were generally endowed with a singleness of heart which was more esteemed than material wealth, and a spirit of economy which benefited the ensuing generation. But it is not in order to describe these times that I write my reminiscences; it is rather because early in life I came in contact with eminent and distinguished people, of whom I feel impelled to give an account. 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.
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