The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844: Volume 23, Number 3Various
Philosophy
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844: Volume 23, Number 3
Various
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'From my youth up, it was my most living desire to see the world.
When I heard or read of foreign lands, I became sad at heart, and
thought: 'Wert thou but of years that thou couldst travel!' Now
are all the wishes of my youth fulfilled. I have made the attempt
by land and water, and that in three quarters of the world. I have
wandered several times through GERMANY, POLAND, HUNGARY, and
WALLACHIA; I was a long time in BUDAPEST and CONSTANTINOPLE; and
undertook, with the money which I had saved there, a pilgrimage
through EGYPT to the HOLY LAND. I kneeled at the BIRTH-PLACE and
the SEPULCHRE of the SAVIOUR; stood in adoration on the holy MOUNT
ZION, on TABOR, GOLGOTHA, and the MOUNT OF OLIVES; bathed in
JORDAN; washed myself in the LAKE OF GENNESARETH; looked in vain
around me on the DEAD SEA for living objects; was in the workshop
of ST. JOSEPH; and in many other holy places of which the sacred
Scriptures make mention. Thence I returned to Constantinople, and
betook myself through Athens, where I worked nearly a year, and
thence through Italy, France, and Belgium, homeward to my
Fatherland.'
The first German edition of fifteen hundred copies of the work was at once
exhausted; a second speedily followed; a third was soon announced; and the
fourth is doubtless ere this before a wide class of German readers. We
cheerfully commend the book to the public acceptance.
BENTHAMIANA: OR SELECT EXTRACTS FROM THE WORKS OF JEREMY BENTHAM. With
an Outline Opinion on the Principal Subjects discussed in his Works.
In one volume, pp. 446. Philadelphia: LEA AND BLANCHARD. New-York:
WILEY AND PUTNAM.
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