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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. XVI. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER V
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"'That is he who had such quarrelling with Wolf ?' LINSENBARTH.

"'Yea, your Majesty! He was--' KING (does not want to know what he was).

"'What other useful Courses of Lectures (COLLEGIA) did you attend ?' LINSENBARTH.

"'Thetics and Exegetics with Fortsch [How the deuce did Fortsch teach these things ?]; Hermeneutics and Polemics with Walch [editor of--Luther's Works,--I suppose]; Hebraics with Dr.Danz; Homiletics with Dr.Weissenborn; PASTORALE [not Pastoral Poetry, but the Art of Pastorship] and MORALE with Dr.Buddaeus.' [There, your Majesty!--what a glimpse, as into infinite extinct Continents, filled with ponderous thorny inanities, invincible nasal drawling of didactic Titans, and the awful attempt to spin, on all manner of wheels, road-harness out of split cobwebs: Hoom! Hoom-m-m! Harness not to be had on those terms.

Let the dreary Limbus close again, till the general Day of Judgment for all this.] KING (glad to get out of the Limbus).


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