The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3): Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the AlmanacHone, William
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The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3): Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac
Hone, William
Days; Great Britain -- Social life and customs
Of this number six belong to Prussia, three to Bavaria, two to the
Austrian States, two to the Grand Duchy of Baden, two to the Electorate
of Hesse-Cassel, and one to each of the following states--Saxony,
Wurtemberg, Denmark, Hanover, the Grand Duchies of Mecklenbergh-Schweren
and of Saxe-Weimar, and Switzerland. The total number of professors is
1055, embracing not only the ordinary and extraordinary professors, but
also the private lecturers, whose courses of reading are announced in
the half-yearly programmes. Catholic Germany, which reckons nineteen
millions of inhabitants, has only six universities; while Protestant
Germany, for seventeen millions of inhabitants, has seventeen. Of the
students there are 149 for every 250,000 in the Protestant states, while
there are only 68 for the same number in the Catholic states. It must,
however, be mentioned, that this estimate does not take in those
Catholic ecclesiastics who do not pursue their studies in the
universities, but in private seminaries.--The universities of Paderborn
and Munster, both belonging to Prussia, and which had only two
faculties, those of theology and philosophy, were suppressed; the first
in 1818, and the second in 1819; but that of Munster has been
reestablished, with the three faculties of theology, philosophy, and
medicine.
Vol. I.--5.
[Illustration: ~Colley Cibber’s youngest Daughter.~]
Last of her sire in dotage--she was used
By him, as children use a fav’rite toy;
Indulg’d, neglected, fondled, and abus’d,
As quick affection of capricious joy,
Or sudden humour of dislike dictated:
Thoughtlessly rear’d, she led a thoughtless life;
And she so well beloved became most hated:
A helpless mother, and a wife unblest,
She pass’d precocious womanhood in strife;
Or, in strange hiding-places, without rest;
Or, wand’ring in disquietude for bread:
Her father’s curse--himself first cause of all
That caused his ban--sunk her in deeper thrall,
Stifling her heart, till sorrow and herself were dead.
*
“THE LIFE OF MRS. CHARLOTTE CHARKE, _youngest daughter of Colley Cibber,
Esq. written by herself_,” is a curious narrative of remarkable
vicissitudes. She dedicates it to herself, and aptly concludes her
dedication by saying, “Permit me, madam, to subscribe myself, for the
future, what I ought to have been some years ago, your real friend, and
humble servant, CHARLOTTE CHARKE.”
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