Index:Rambles and Researches in Thuringian Saxony.djvu

Title	Rambles and Researches in Thuringian Saxony
Author	John Frederick Stanford
Year	1842
Publisher	John W. Parker
Location	London
Source	djvu
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A Little Twaddle by Way of Preface .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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CONTENTS.

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Extracts from Journal. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Arrival at Gotha; Ludicrous Mistake, 1—Divorce from Baggage; Lions visited; Table d’Hôte; Slight Mistake, 2—Dialogue, French and German, about the Queen; Grand Hunt; Mohr Hof Gesellschafts Bal, or Ball of the Gotha Bourgeois, 3—Visit to Professors; Prince Albert’s Tutor; Hospitality of the People, 4—Liberality of Reigning Duke, with reference to the Press; Gotha Observatory; Celebrated Astronomers, 5—Sunday at Gotha, 6—Invitation to Court, 7—Absurd Ideas respecting Grerman Courts and Princes, 8—Duke of Gotha’s Income; Meeting of Gotha Savans, 9—Description of remarkable Manuscripts in Ducal Library, 10—Importance of a Name, 11—Invitation to Duchess Dowager; Specimen of Saxon Latinity, 14—Dr. Bretschneider and Hugh Rose, 16—Pastor Hochgesang and Egg-Punch; Pickwick, and the Queen; Opinion of a Gotha Worthy on approaching Nuptials, 17—Permission to dedicate Book; Gotha Sing Verein; Social Customs, 18—Pride of Ancestry, 19—Visit to Coburg, 20—Persian Poet rivalled, 22—Introduction to Prince Albert; Description of the Prince, 23—Hereditary Prince Ernest, 24—Lions of Coburg, 25—Proclamation of Marriage; Grand Banquet; Hunting Dinner, 26—Concert at Court; Return to Gotha, 28—Opera inaugurated; Drouet, the Flute Player, 41—Masked Ball at Opera; Departure of Prince Albert; Soirée at the Reigning Duchess’; Album for Her Majesty; Farewell Supper, 42—Anecdote for Scholars, 43.

Characteristic Memoirs of the Ducal Families of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, from the Times of Ernest the Pious down to the present Period .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Ernest the Pious, 48—Anecdotes of his Early Years, 50—Skill in Military Affairs; Fought at Lutzen under Gustavus; Marriage, 52—Numerous Family; State of the Court, 53—Courts of Justice, 54—Education of the People; Encouragement of Learned Men, 58—Numerous Valuable Works completed by Ernest’s Order; His great anxiety for the Extension of the Protestant Religion, 58—His Plans for a Union of the Protestant Dissenters; His Missions to the Court of Charles of Sweden; Letter of the Same, 63—Correspondence with the East, 60—Resemblance to the Caliphs of Bagdad; Anecdote of Ernest, 63—Ernest’s Opinion of the Stage; Curious Play performed at Court, 71—Will of the Duke; Division of his Dominions, 72—Death of the Duke; Eulogium of Becler on Duke Ernest, 73.

Frederick I., Successor to Ernest the Pious, 74—Established Law of Primogeniture, 75.

Frederick II., Successor to Frederick I.; Numerous Family; Grandfather of George III. of England, 75.

Frederick III., 75—Duchess Louisa Dorothea; Talented Princess; Correspondence with Voltaire; Frederick the Great, 76—Admirable Education of her Family; the Princes Ernest and Augustus; Brilliancy of the Court of Gotha at this Epoch, 106.

Ernest II.; Resemblance to Earnest the Pious; his Fondness for the Classics, 107—Taste for Languages; Visit to the Court of St. James’; Unhappy Marriage, 108—Foundation of the Observatory at Gotha; Liberal Political Opinions, 109—Interest in the Stage, Attachment to Freemasonry, 110.

Augustus; Remarkably talented Prince; Educated at Geneva; Great Antiquarian; Good Linguist, 110—Numerous Accomplishments, 111—Compositions of the Duke, 112—Eccentricities; Correspondence with Madame de Staël, 114—Napoleon’s Visit to the Duke at Gotha, 118—Anecdote of the Duke, 119—Correspondence with De Zach, 120—Marriage of his Daughter Louisa to the Duke of Coburg, 122.

Frederick IV.; Ill Health of the Prince; Residence at Rome; Conversion to the Roman Catholic Religion; Consequent Inability to Reign; Duchy governed by Minister von Lindenau, 122—Death of Frederick IV.; Interregnum; Accession of the House of Coburg to the Duchy of Gotha, 122

Historical Sketch of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg, including Biographies of the Reigning Duke, His Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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LETTERS FROM THURINGIA.

Letter I. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Description of Thuringia, 153—Thuringian Peasants, 154—Their Customs, Songs, Native Poetry, 156—“Der Freischütz” of Weber first sketched out in Thuringia; Wieland—his Oberon, 157.

Letter II. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Thuringian Music and Musical Instruments, 159—Peasant Rhymes, 160—Taste for Flowers and Birds; Skill in Teaching the Bulfinch; Superstition of Peasantry, 161—Thuringian Dialect, 162—Epithalamium of the Gotha Scholars, 163.

Letter III. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Castle of the Wartburg, 165—Interior of the Old Banqueting Hall; Seneschals Daughter; “Sänger Kreig,” or famous Poetical Contest in the Thirteenth Century, 166—Old Jena Chronicle; Specimen of the German Troveres Poetical Taste, 169.

Letter IV. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Description of a Grand Hunt in the Thuringian Forest, given by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha in honour of the King of Saxony, 172—Thuringian Hunting Song, 175.

Letter V. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Legend of Frau-Venus of the Hörselberg, in which the Chevalier Tanhauser and Der Getreue Eckhard are principal Characters, 177.

Letter VI. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Thuringian Festivities; Description of the “Kirmse,” 184—Words of a Thuringian Song, 189.

Letter VII. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Thuringian Festivities continued, 189—Description of the “Vogel Schiessen,” 190—Proceedings of a Thuringian Marriage, 192.

Letter VIII. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Thuringian Festivities continued, 193—Description of Christmas in Thuringia, 194—Proverbs and Superstitions, 198.

Letter IX. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Thuringian Legend of the “Graf von Gleichen,” founded on Historical Facts, 200—Old Manuscript in Jena, 211—Relics at Tonna, 212.

Letter X. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Visit to Weimar, 212—Göthe’s House, 214—Anecdotes of the Poet; Dr. Eckermann, 215—Biographical Sketches, 216—Invitation to the Palace, 217.

Letter XI. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Description of the Court at Weimar; the Grand Duke and Duchess, 218—Soirée at Court, 219—Amusements at Court, 220.

Letter XII. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Interesting account of the Fêtes at Weimar, in honour of the Emperor Napoleon and the Emperor Alexander, 222—Anecdotes of Napoleon, Talma, Wieland, Göthe, 223.

Letter XIII. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Visit to Jena, 233—Students and Student Life, 234—Riots, Duelling, Charivaris, &c., 238—University Statistics, 244.

Letter XIV. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Skeleton Tour, to occupy sixteen days, including a Description of the most beautiful and interesting parts of the Thuringian Forest, the Towns of Gotha, Weimar, Coburg, Hildburgahausen, Meiningen, Jena, Erfurt, &c., with numerous Legends, Anecdotes, &c., 245.

Letter XV. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Guide to Works on Geology; Natural History of Thuringia, 261.

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Perspective of Market Place and Principal Street of Gotha, .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Portrait of His Serene Highness Duke Ernest of Gotha, surnamed the Pious, from a Portrait in possession of Her Serene Highness the Duchess of Saxe Gotha Altenburg .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Portrait of His Serene Highness the Reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, with Autograph .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Portrait of Her Serene Highness the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg Gotha (Mother of His Royal Highness Prince Albert) .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Portrait of His Royal Highness Prince Albert .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Genealogical Table of the Ducal Houses of Saxony, with Notes and Illustrations .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Marriage Costumes of Thuringian Peasants (drawn from life) .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Map of Thuringia .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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