The autiobiography of Thomas Platter, tr. by the translator of Lavater's Original maxims [E.A. McCaul].1847 |
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Seite 51 - I got many presents. I had many relations ; one brought me eggs, another cheese, or a ball of butter. Also others, whose children came to me to school, brought the like ; some a quarter of a sheep ; those who were at home in the village gave milk, vegetables, jugs of wine ; so that seldom a day passed in which something was not given to us. At times we have reckoned at night, that in one day eight or nine different presents had been sent to us. A few weeks before my arrival, several women in...
Seite 32 - There are wicked peasants there ; they drive all their bishops away out of the country. If you intend to study properly you need not give me any thing ; but if not, you must pay me, or I will pull your coats off your back." That was the first school which seemed to me to go on well. At that time the study of languages and sciences came into fashion. It was the same year that the diet was held at Worms. Sapidus had at one time nine hundred scholars, amongst whom were several...
Seite 48 - ... took my little book, went into a summer-house, and read the •whole day, till the watchman at the city gate called. By degrees I made acquaintance with a few students, particularly with the scholars of Dr. Beatus Rhenanus. These and others often passed my shop, and spoke to me that I should give up the rope-making trade, and they would recommend me to Erasmus of Rotterdam, who at that time lived at Basle. But it was all of no use...
Seite 36 - Gospel was just beginning to dawn, although Mass and the idolatrous pictures in the churches were continued for a long time after. Whenever he was rough towards me, he afterwards took me to his house, and gave me a meal ; for he liked to hear me relate how I had travelled through all the countries in Germany, and what I had suffered every where, which I could much better remember then than now.
Seite 55 - I had to pay ten pounds houie.rent; and at that time, too, everything was dear ; for a quarter of corn cost six pounds, and a quart of wine eight rapps. The scarcity, however, did not last long. I went to the market and bought a little cask of wine ; I think it was an aulm, which I carried home upon my shoulder. During the drinking of this wine, my wife and I had run.
Seite 36 - ... and as I learned to read it I learned it by heart at the same time. That turned to good account for me in the opinion of Father Myconius, my new teacher in Zurich ; for he began at once to read Terence with us, and then we had to decline and conjugate every little word in a whole comedy. He used often to deal with me until my shirt was wet with perspiration through fear, and my eyes grew dim ; and yet he never gave me a blow, except on one single occasion with the lefthand on my cheek.
Seite 45 - When I had used up the cwt. of hemp my apprenticeship was over, and I intended to go to Basle. I therefore took leave of my master, as if I was going early next morning; but I went to my old lodging at the house of the hatter's widow, and remained six weeks privately there, and wrote a gloss upon Euripides, that I might be able to take it as well as Homer on the way with me ; for I intended also to study on the way. Then I took my bundle, and left Zurich at...
Seite 46 - They said that he was the rudest master on the whole length of the Rhine, on which account the rope-making journeymen did not like to be with him ; and I found a place open the sooner. When he first employed me, I could scarcely hang up the hemp, and twist it very little. Then the master shewed me his manners, began to fight and to curse, and said, ' Go stick out the eyes of the master that taught you ; and what shall I do with you ? you can do nothing yet.
Seite 20 - ... allowed to steal geese and ducks, and other articles of provision, and that nothing was done to them on that account if they could only escape from the owner. In my simplicity I believed every thing, for I knew nothing of the commandments of God, and had had no experience of the world. One day we were not far from a village; there was a great flock of geese there, and the herdsman was not at hand, but pretty far off with the cowherds. Then I asked my comrades, the fags, " When shall, we be in...
Seite 55 - Afterwards a good friend bought us a glass, in shape something like a boot ; with that we went into the cellar when we had bathed. This glass held rather more than the anker. The cask lasted long; and when it was out we bought another. I went into the hospital, and bought a little kettle and a tub, both of which had holes.