53.HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN.
Saturday,April 24th, 1841.
Saturday,April 24th, 1841.
Saturday,April 24th, 1841.
Saturday,April 24th, 1841.
A disappointment, dear friend, not to have found you. Correct this title-page for me; I have to send it away. As it is necessary to state, “that this is not the lecture of 1828,” I thought of having the long sentence printed on the title-page, in small type, like an aphorism. It may look strangeafterthe name, but I hope you will be able to approve of it.
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“Kosmos. Sketch of a Physical Description of the World, by A. von Humboldt. From Sketches and Lectures delivered in the years 1827 and 1828, enlarged and corrected according to the latest researches.
“‘Naturæ vero rerum vis atque majestas sin omnibus momentis fide caret, si quis modo partes ejus ac non totam complectatur animo.’—Plin. Hist. Nat.,lib.7. c. 1. Stuttgart.”