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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 178 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=10mm, Gew.=268gr, [GR: 27780 - TB/Internationales und ausländ. Rec… Meer...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 178 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=10mm, Gew.=268gr, [GR: 27780 - TB/Internationales und ausländ. Recht], [SW: - Legal Reference / Law Profession], Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: 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: CHAPTER III. THE BEGINNING OF HIS LIFE-WORK. Advised by his doctor to give up study for a time and to recuperate in the country; and inspired by Rousseau to return to the life of nature; Pestalozzi renounced the study of books for ever, committed all his manuscripts, to the flames, and took to farming. He went to Kirch- berg, in the canton of Bern, and apprenticed himself to a farmer named Tschiffeli, a man who had a great reputation for his knowledge and skill in farming, and for his keen interest in the welfare of the farm workers. An out-door life, healthy and regular work, the quiet and calm of country life, peaceful meditation, and intercourse with nature and men of simple habits, soon restored him to sound health and to that childlike simplicity of thought and conduct which had distinguished him as a boy. From Tschiffeli he learnt much. - " I had come to him," he says, " a political visionary, though with many profound and correct attainments, views and prospects in political matters; and I went - away from him just as great an agricultural visionary, though with many enlarged and correct ideas and intentions in regard to agriculture. My stay with him only had this effect: that the gigantic views in relation to my exertions were awakened within me afresh by his agricultural plans, which, though difficult of execution, and in part impracticable, were bold and extensive; and that at the same time they caused me, in my thoughtlessness as to the means of carrying them out, to fall into a callousness the consequences of which contributed in a decisive manner to the pecuniary embarrassment into which I was plunged the very first years of my rural life." In 1767, at the age of twenty-two, he resolved to start a farm for himself. With a small legacy from his father a...<

ISBN: 0217270964

ISBN: 0217270964