Private History of Peregrinus Proteus, the Philosopher, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Wieland, Christoph Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 024358833X ISBN 13: 9780243588336

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Private History of Peregrinus Proteus, the Philosopher, Vol. 1 of 2

This latter (that I may act unnecefi'ari ly leave the reader in fufpenfe) was a cer tain Lucian - not one of the two or three fainted Lucians who parade in the piétures of the martyrologies with a ring of glory about their heads; nor Lucian the monk nor Lucian the priefi of kapphar-gamala, who, in the year of falvation 4! 5, was {0 fortunate as to be informed, in a dream, by St. Gamaliel, where the bones of St. Stephen were to be found; net Lucian the Mareionim nor Lucian of Samofata, the Arian, from whom the. Collateral branch of this unhappy family bears the name of Lucianites -b'txt (fince it mufi' come out) Lucian the dialogue-maker, who formerly made himfelf fo merry, with his friends Momus and Menippus, at the follies of gods and men; bur who, with the excep tion of that one failing, was, and ill is to this very hour, as honefi and jovial a foul as ever was born of woman.

The other interlocutor Was a perfon no lefs remarkable; as, during his life-time Upon earth, he appeared in all things the molt decided contrafi to my friend Lucian, and played (0 ambiguous a part, that he went out of the world with the reputation of a demi-god in the minds of fame, while others could not agree whether the fool or the profligate, the impofior or the fanatic, had the afcendant in his character. In the life of this man, all was eccentric and ex ttaordinary, but his death was (kill more fo; for he died voluntarily, and folemnly, on a fcafi'old or funeral pile, which he fer: fire to with his own hand, in the prefence of a great concourfe of fpeétators from all the ends of the world, in the territory of Olympia.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 024358833X
• ISBN 13: 9780243588336
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302