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pictures, followed by a connected sketch of the Reformation as it centred
in him.
Luther’s Childhood
The work contains forty-eight engravings, divided, with reference to
the leading events of his life, or the great features of his character, into
seven parts. The FIRST division embraces the years of his childhood--and,
not uncharacteristically of the German origin of the book, presents us as
a first picture Martin Luther (such we must here call him by anticipation)
on the night of "his birth, 11 o'clock, November 10th, 1483." Speaking
of Luther's birth, Carlyle says: "In the whole world, that day, there was not
a more entirely unimportant-looking pair of people, than this miner and
his wife. And yet what were all Emperors, Popes, and Potentates, in
comparison? There was born here, once more, a Mighty Man; whose light
was to flame as the beacon over long centuries and epochs of the world;
the whole world and its history was waiting for this man. It is strange, it is
great. It leads us back to another Birth-hour, in a still meaner
environment, eighteen hundred years ago--of which it is fit
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H.: M. L. n. s. Leben u. Wirken. Halle: 1817. 8vo. SCOTT Luther and the L. Reformation. New York: 1833. 2
vols. 12mo. SEARS: Life of Luther. Am. S. S. Un.
STANG: M. L. s. Leben u. Wirken. Stuttg. 1835. 4to.
UKERT: L.'s Leben, mit d. Literat. Gotha: 1817. 8vo.
ULENBERG: Gesch. d. Lutherischer Reformatoren. Dr. M. Luther, &c. Mainz: 1836. 2 vols. 8vo.
WEISER: Life of Luther. Balto.: 1853.
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Schriften D. M. L. Darmstadt: 1846-1849. 4 vols. 8vo.