 Austria was far away from the world, and asleep ; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock...  The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance - Página 1por Mark Twain - 1916 - 150 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Mark Twain - 1922 - 342 páginas
...McWn-LiAMSES AND THE BURGLAR ALARM 315 THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER* CHAPTER I IT was in 1590 — winter. Austria was far away from...it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meantit as a compliment, t^oi; a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember... | |
 | Maria Ornella Marotti - 2010 - 213 páginas
...form of technological progress or rational thought, far from the flow of history: It was 1702—May. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it...mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Faith in Austria. . . . Yes, Austria was far from the world, and asleep, and our village was in the... | |
 | Everett Emerson - 2000 - 428 páginas
...has presumably remained naive and deluded. The story begins with this emphasis: "It was 1702 — May. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it...mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Faith in Austria."30 Theodor remembers his boyhood identification with an ignorant brand of Catholicism.... | |
 | Louis J. Budd - 1999 - 674 páginas
...mediaeval setting for the story, a village in the middle of Austria, in the year 1590, when, as some said, "it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they...compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were proud of it." To three youths, wandering in the woods, comes a stranger, who sits down by them and... | |
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