Ueber das Leben und die Verdienste Johann von Dalbergs

often praised merits Verdienste can be placed in parallel with those; since you are likewise a promoter of scholarship Gelehrsamkeit, love, honor, and spread the sciences, value the learned, and imitate the excellent example of a wise man, most worthy of the highest fame, Friedrich Karl Joseph Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, 1719 to 1802, was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz; since in the past year I enjoyed the unforgettable happiness and the highest grace of being permitted to testify my deepest veneration to Your Archbishopric Grace yourself in Aschaffenburg; so I also hope, for the sake of this incomplete attempt, for the most gracious indulgence and most favorable judgment Beurtheilung, the indulgence and judgment of a sublime connoisseur whose deep-searching and all-penetrating gaze escapes nothing, but who also perceives the difficulty of the sub-

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