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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. 1886 Excerpt: ...exercising a good influence on those about you, bringing them, as far as you may, to feel a sympathy with all that is lovely and of good report. Think of this, and your heart will be lighter. For my own part, I feel at this moment more than ever that fame must be looked upon only as an accessory. If it has ever been a principal object with me--which I doubt--it is so no more. To his Father. Heidelberg, January 24,1836. It is now two months since I have written you, and yet I have hardly courage to begin this letter. I feel very lonely and dejected, and the recollection of the last three months of my life overwhelms me with unceasing sorrow. Every day makes me more conscious of the loss I have suffered in Mary's death; and when I think how gentle and affectionate and good she was, every moment of her life, even to the last, and that she will be no more with me in this world, --the sense of my bereavement is deep and unutterable. You can well imagine that it requires a great effort for me to discipline my thoughts to regular study. I am doing, however, all that I can. Fortunately, Heidelberg is a very beautiful place. The town stands between steep and high mountains on the Neckar, just where the valley, before so narrow that you can almost throw a stone across, spreads out trumpet-mouthed into the broad plain of the Ehine. The change in the face of the landscape is sudden and beautiful, --no gradual transition, with broken and irregular hills, but the mountains go down with one grand sweep into the plain. Overlooking the town stand the ruins of a magnificent old castle, --the finest I have seen in Europe, excepting the Alhambra. Indeed, the whole scene reminds me of Granada, and the valley of the Darro, and is hardly less beautiful. The University of...

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