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Faust, a tragedy, tr. by capt. [C.H.] Knox
Faust a tragedy tr by capt Knox - C.H. Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE TRAGEDY. First Part. Time — Night. Faust, restless m his chair, at his desk, in a high vaulted small gothic chamber. Faust. Philosophy, and law,... more » and medicine, And to my sorrow, too, theology By this time have I studied searchingly; Poor fool, yet after all, all this hot toil of mine, 1 find myself no wiser than before. Faust was born at Knittlingen, in Suabia, in the beginning of the 16th century, and was educated at Wittenberg. He then resided at Ingolstadt, where he devoted himself to medicine, astrology, and magic, and employed bis acquirements in such a manner as to convince his countrymen that he had sold himself to the Devil. Master of Arts, and Doctor, indeed They call me, and now for this ten years I lead Up and down, and in and out, My scholars by the nose about, And see that we can nothing know : It sears my heart it should be so. " Man is constituted a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent gaze, as a set of phenomena in which he has no further interest than as the; affect his immediate situation, and can be rendered subservient to his comfort, but as a system disposed with order and design. He approves and feels the highest admiration of the harmony of its parts, the skill and efficiency of its contrivances. Some of these, which he can best trace and understand, he attempts to imitate, and finds that to a certain extent, though rudely and imperfectly, he can succeed; in others, that, though he can comprehend the contrivance, he is totally destitute of all means of imitation; while in others, again, and these evidently the most important, though he sees the effect produced, yet the means by which it is done, are alike beyond his knowledge and his cont...« less