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Excerpt from German Life and Manners as Seen in Saxony at the Present Day, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Account of Village Life Town Life Fashionable Life Domestic Life Married Life School and University Life, &C., Of Germany at the Present Time, Illustrated With Songs and Pictures of the Student Customs at the University of Jena
This book sprang out of certain inquiries into the early life of Martin Luther, which the author was desirous of instituting, and for the due prosecution of which it was necessary to visit the principal Lutheran localities - those romantic scenes in the stirring drama of the Reformation. A few of these will be found described in the following pages such as the Luther-village of Mohra, on the border of the Thuringian forest (the home of the Luthers, from time out of mind, even down to the present day); as well as the Luther-city of Eisenach, the capital of Thuringia, where the Reformer was twice rescued from destruction: first, from perishing by hunger, when he was a little mendicant choir-boy, singing in the streets there for bread for the love of God; and, secondly, from immolation at the stake, when he. Was a heretic monk, pursued by the sacri ficial priests of Rome. For the same asylum as Martin found in the cotta-house at Eisenach, in the obscurity of his youth, the castle of the Wartburg there, afforded him in the perilous pride of his after life.
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