OR
Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days
A BIOGRAPHY
FROM THE GERMAN OF
JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER
TRANSLATED BY
CHARLES T. BROOKS
"The Earth is the cul-de-sac in the great city of God,—the camera obscura full of inverted and contracted images from a fairer world,—the coast of God's creation,—a vaporous halo around a better sun,—the numerator to a still invisible denominator,—in fact, it is almost nothing at all."
Selections from the Papers of the Devil.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
1865.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
University Press:
Welch, Bigelow, And Company,
Cambridge.
