The Family Life of Heinrich Heine

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Excerpt from The Family Life of Heinrich Heine: Illustrated by One Hundred Twenty-Two Hitherto Unpublished Letters Addressed by Him to Different Members of His FamilyThe teleologist Who believes with Emerson in compensation, and with the Christian in retribution, will find great satisfaction in the fact, Which appears as in a mirror in these pages, that he who had brought Von Platen to his grave by cruel slander, and who had made his venomed teeth and claws felt by every enemy on the slightest provocation, who had ridiculed others for poverty, old age, and unavoidable personal defects, and had heaped bitterly ungrateful falsehoods on his old teacher Schlegel, to whom he was under deep obligation - for Heine did all this - was destined himself to suffer bitterly in advanced life for want of money, and undergo long tortures from not only cramps, paralysis, and blind ness, but to be tormented With a two years' lawsuit With an ungrateful millionaire cousin, Whom he had nursed at the extreme risk of his own life all through the cholera of 18 32, and to feel himself obliged to Work hard for a living through all these trials.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.