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The Union Of Love To God And Love To Man, A Sermon, Preached In St. Andrew's Church, New Town, Edinburgh,
waters , and they shall find it after many days . ' But let all those who are insensible to the miseries of their fellow-creatures—and still more , let those who are instrumental in bringing . calamities upon others , read this passage and tremble . ( To be continued . )
Account Of An Extraordinary Natural Genius,
ACCOUNT OF AN EXTRAORDINARY NATURAL GENIUS ,
WHO LIVED SOME YEARS AGO AT DRESDEN , IN SAXONY .
IT is usual for the commissaries of excise in Saxony to appoint a peasant in every village in their district to receive the excise of the place , for which few are allowed more than one crown , and none more than three . Mr . Christian Gotthold Hoffman , who is chief commissary at . Dresden ancl the villages adjacentwhen he was auditing the accounts
, of some of these peasants in March 1753 , was told , that there was among them . one John Ludwig , a strange man , who , though he was very poor and had a family , was yet continually reading in books , and very often stood the greatest part of the night at his'door , gazing at the stars . This account raised M . Ploffman ' s curiosityand he ordered the
, man to be brought before him . Hoffman , who expected something in the man ' s appearance that corresponded with a mind superior to his station , was greatly surprised to see the most rustic boor he had ever beheld . His hair hung over his forehead down to his eyes , his aspect was sordid and stupid , and his manner was , in every respect , that of a plodding ignorant clown . Mr . Hoffman , after contemplating
this unpromising appearance , concluded , that as the supposed superiority of this man was of the intellectual kind , it would certainly appear when he spoke ; but even in this experiment he was also disappointed . Pie asked him , if what his neighbours had said of his reading and studying was true ? and the man bluntly and coarsely replied ; "What neighbour has told you that I read and study ? If I have studiedI have studied for myselfand I don ' t desire that you
, , or any body else should know any thing of the matter . " Hoffman , however , continued the conversation , notwithstanding his disappointment , and asked several questions concerning arithmetic , and the first rudiments- of astronomy ; to which he now expected vague and confused replies . But in this too he had formed an erroneous prognostic ; for Hoffman was struck not only with
astonishment but confusion , to hear such definitions and explications as would have done honour to a regular academic in a public examination . - Mr . Hoffman , after this conversation , prevailed on the peasant to stay some time at his house , that he mi ght further gratify his curiosity at such times as would be most convenient . In their subsequent VOL . V . Q -
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The Union Of Love To God And Love To Man, A Sermon, Preached In St. Andrew's Church, New Town, Edinburgh,
waters , and they shall find it after many days . ' But let all those who are insensible to the miseries of their fellow-creatures—and still more , let those who are instrumental in bringing . calamities upon others , read this passage and tremble . ( To be continued . )
Account Of An Extraordinary Natural Genius,
ACCOUNT OF AN EXTRAORDINARY NATURAL GENIUS ,
WHO LIVED SOME YEARS AGO AT DRESDEN , IN SAXONY .
IT is usual for the commissaries of excise in Saxony to appoint a peasant in every village in their district to receive the excise of the place , for which few are allowed more than one crown , and none more than three . Mr . Christian Gotthold Hoffman , who is chief commissary at . Dresden ancl the villages adjacentwhen he was auditing the accounts
, of some of these peasants in March 1753 , was told , that there was among them . one John Ludwig , a strange man , who , though he was very poor and had a family , was yet continually reading in books , and very often stood the greatest part of the night at his'door , gazing at the stars . This account raised M . Ploffman ' s curiosityand he ordered the
, man to be brought before him . Hoffman , who expected something in the man ' s appearance that corresponded with a mind superior to his station , was greatly surprised to see the most rustic boor he had ever beheld . His hair hung over his forehead down to his eyes , his aspect was sordid and stupid , and his manner was , in every respect , that of a plodding ignorant clown . Mr . Hoffman , after contemplating
this unpromising appearance , concluded , that as the supposed superiority of this man was of the intellectual kind , it would certainly appear when he spoke ; but even in this experiment he was also disappointed . Pie asked him , if what his neighbours had said of his reading and studying was true ? and the man bluntly and coarsely replied ; "What neighbour has told you that I read and study ? If I have studiedI have studied for myselfand I don ' t desire that you
, , or any body else should know any thing of the matter . " Hoffman , however , continued the conversation , notwithstanding his disappointment , and asked several questions concerning arithmetic , and the first rudiments- of astronomy ; to which he now expected vague and confused replies . But in this too he had formed an erroneous prognostic ; for Hoffman was struck not only with
astonishment but confusion , to hear such definitions and explications as would have done honour to a regular academic in a public examination . - Mr . Hoffman , after this conversation , prevailed on the peasant to stay some time at his house , that he mi ght further gratify his curiosity at such times as would be most convenient . In their subsequent VOL . V . Q -