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Many of his numerous friends deserted and some abused him, such as Gleim, Jacobi, and others, or attacked him with bitter hatred as Voss in his pamphlet "Wie ward Fritz Stolberg ein Unfreier?"
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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But Gleim was a man of spirit and considerable power.
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The first mention made of him is in the letter to Gleim of April 4, 1769, and a few days afterward, -- April 10, -- the intelligence is afforded that he himself is working on a “journey.”
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This letter printed in the Hamburg paper was to explain the snuff-box, which Jacobi had sent to Gleim a few days before, and the desire is also expressed to spread the order.
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Gleim and Lessing, as secretaries of Prussian generals, and Ewald von
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various
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Heinse alluded to Sterne frequently in his letters to Gleim (1770-1771), [85] but after August 23, 1771, Sterne vanished from his fund of allusion, though the correspondence lasts until 1802, a fact of significance in dating the German enthusiasm for
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See also Birnbaum, _Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen_, Bd. viii, p. 611; he especially illustrates this kind of friendship by the correspondence of the poets Gleim and Jacobi, who used to each other the language of lovers, which, indeed, they constantly called themselves.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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In 1750 a day's journey was still reckoned at five miles, two hours to the mile; and when in July 1750 Klopstock travelled with Gleim from Halberstadt to Magdeburg in a light carriage drawn by four horses, at the rate of six miles in six hours, he thought this speed remarkable enough to merit comparison with the racing in the Olympian games.
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893
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Gleim, for instance, in his _Praise of Country Life_: 'Thank God that I have fled from the bustle of the world and am myself again under the open sky.'
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893
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With this idyllic tone it is not surprising to find the religious feeling of many hymn writers; for instance, Gleim in _The Goodness of
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893
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