Ueber das Leben und die Verdienste Johann von Dalbergs

highly meritorious men, who distinguished themselves particularly in the realm of the sciences Wissenschaften academic fields of study, could be elucidated; yet the contempt with which most of our current fashionable writers Modeschriftsteller undeservedly treat these small writings—which not infrequently contain a treasure of real and true scholarship Gelehrsamkeit, a treasure of significant literary reports litterarischen Nachrichten—prevents it. This occurs because all these writings are becoming rarer than they already are by nature of their age. Added to this is the great quantity of them, which, although not all are equally useful, includes many that would certainly be worthy of the strictest attention. I have used some such small writings in this attempt, and wished I could have obtained more, but it remained a mere wish, and the fulfillment of it was, as I well

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