Aus Herz und Welt: two short stories for use in school and college

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Wilhelm Bernhardt
D. C. Heath, 1896 - 92 Seiten
 

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Seite 80 - PERCUSSION, in medicine, is the method of eliciting sounds by striking the surface of the body, for the purpose of determining the condition of the organs subjacent to the parts struck. This means of diagnosis was first employed by Avenbrugger in the middle of the last century ; it was afterwards extensively adopted by Corvisart in investigating the diseases of the heart, but its value, like that of all the other branches of auscultation, was not fully appreciated till...
Seite vii - ... fame. But after a few years, the death of her husband brought to a sudden end the happiest and sunniest period of her life. Although physically delicate, her mind is vigorous and untiringly active, as is shown by the great number of her writings, all of which have met with the greatest success and highest commendation on the part of the press and the public at large.
Seite v - ... her ambitions, social and literary, culminating in the military profession. She was born May 1 7th, 1860, as the youngest daughter of a lieutenant of the Hessian Hussars, who in 1867 was promoted captain of the Thuringian Hussars in Merseburg, and in 1872, owing to another promotion, was transferred to the capital of the German Empire. Through her talented mother, who before her marriage was a Baroness Schenk zu Schweinsberg, Nataly received a thorough artistic education, which developed at an...
Seite 84 - The future is frequently used instead of the present, and the future perfect instead of the perfect, in order to express a supposition or probability. As: Gv lotvb Ijungrig feiti, / suppose he is hungry ; er mirb tjungrig gemefen feilt, he has probably been hungry.
Seite vi - ... 1891 Nataly von Eschstruth was married to Franz von KnobelsdorffBrenkenhoff, a captain in the regiment of the Alexander Grenadiers of Guards in Berlin, with whom the authoress is reported to enjoy the happiness of an almost ideal married life. Although now the mother of two children, a boy and a girl, and though personally superintending every detail of her household, she still finds time to present, year after year, the untold number of her admirers with a new product of her prolific pen. WfLHELM...
Seite vi - During a two years' stay at a boarding-school in Geneva (Switzerland) she published a volume of short stories, which were received with the greatest interest everywhere. These Swiss novelettes were followed by a volume of " Humoresken," — from which the last two stories of the present volume are taken, — and soon came in quick succession a long series of works of fiction which completely won the hearts of the reading public.
Seite v - Association, held in Charlottenburg, near Berlin, in the month of August, 1895, a ballot for the most popular writer of the day resulted in a first choice for NATALY VON ESCHSTRUTH ; Ernst von Wildenbruch and Paul Heyse taking the second and third places, respectively, in the hearts of their countrymen. Nataly von Eschstruth is a soldier's child par exceiience, all her ambitions, social and literary, culminating in the military profession.
Seite vii - Stökl's writings consists in the warmth and sincerity, the naturalness and extreme purity, with which she treats the ordinary interests and cares of domestic life.
Seite v - ... grand-duchy of Baden, he has published a large series of popular stories which, on account of their unaffected piety, vigorous language, and healthy humor, have become great favorites with the German people. The titles of these collections are : " Erzählungen für das Volk " and " Allerlei Sang und Klang." At the Summer Festival of the German Authors' Association, held in Charlottenburg, near Berlin, in the month of August, 1895, a ballot for the most popular writer of the day resulted in a...
Seite vii - Christbaum" has made for her an unusually large number of friends and admirers among both students and teachers of German.

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