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Title: Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I.

Author: Gustav Freytag

Translator: Georgiana Malcolm

Release Date: September 29, 2010 [EBook #33818]

Language: English

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PICTURES OF GERMAN LIFE

IN THE

EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES.

SECOND SERIES.

* * * * *

VOL. I.

PICTURES

OF

GERMAN LIFE

In the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries.

Second Series.

BY
GUSTAV FREYTAG.

Translated from the Original by
MRS. MALCOLM.

_COPYRIGHT EDITION.--IN TWO VOLUMES_.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193 PICCADILLY.
1863.

LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

CONTENTS.

SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES.

Introduction.--The nation and the individual--Aim of the
book--Peculiarities in the development of the German people since
the Thirty Years' War

CHAPTER I.

Life of the German Peasant (1240-1790).--The duration of modern
nations--German agriculture in the time of the Romans, the
Carlovingians, and the Hohen