This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...the aid of his intercession. It then seemed to him as if a benevolent hand unloosed the weight from his neck; he felt himself disengaged from it, rose to the surface of the water, made some exertions, which happily resulted in the disentanglement of his hands and feet, and under cover of the darkness he gained the bank ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...the aid of his intercession. It then seemed to him as if a benevolent hand unloosed the weight from his neck; he felt himself disengaged from it, rose to the surface of the water, made some exertions, which happily resulted in the disentanglement of his hands and feet, and under cover of the darkness he gained the bank. He was so fortunate as to escape completely. After many wanderings, he re-appeared in his native town; and, from gratitude to the good St. John of Nepomuck, he erected on the Rigdyck the statue which you have saluted. The epitaph, which is still to be seen in the metropolitan church of Prague, on the tomb of St. John Nepomucene, was written after the death of Wenceslaus. The translation is as follows: --"Under this stone reposes the body of the most venerable and most glorious John Nepomucene, Doctor, Canon of this Church, and Confessor of the Empress; who, for having remained unshaken in his fidelity to the sacred seal of Confession, was cruelly tormented, and precipitated from the bridge of Prague into the Moldau, by the orders of Wenceslaua IV., 127 THE FORTUNES OF ADRIAN BROUWER. Man fashions himself by example, receiving the bent which is given to him as a child, --all is a mirror in his eyes."--Coras. I.--Brouwer And His Father. In a dull house at Oudenard, in the first quarter of the seventeenth century, no one who entered it could fail to observe a child of wretched appearance constantly bent over a little embroidery-frame, who was painting on pieces of cloth, of the size of a saucer, birds, flowers, or elegant devices. In the first instance he confined himself to drawing the objects on the canvass, and his mother used to embroider them in wool, varying the colours to the best of her ability. In a short time he endeavoured to...
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