Solomon Maimon, by J. Clark Murray, Ll.D., F.R.S.C

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Author

Maimon, Solomon, 1754-1800

Title

Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography.

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Produced by Charlene Taylor,Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

Subject

Judaism -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 18th century

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eBook-No.

41042

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41042

Release Date

October 13, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SOLOMON MAIMON.
2. 2.J. CLARK MURRAY, LL.D., F.R.S.C., — Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, M'Gill College, Montreal .
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4."TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
5. 5.SOLOMON MAIMON.
6. 6.INTRODUCTION.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. — My Grandfather's Housekeeping.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. — First Reminiscences of Youth.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. — Private Education and Independent Study.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — Jewish Schools—The Joy of being released from them causes a stiff foot.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. — My Family is driven into Misery, and an old Servant loses by his great Faithfulness a Christian Burial.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — New Abode, new Misery—The Talmudist.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. — Joy endureth but a little while.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. — The Pupil knows more than the Teacher—A theft à la Rousseau , which is discovered—"The ungodly provideth, and the righteous putteth it on."
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. — Love Affairs and Matrimonial Proposals—The Song of Solomon may be used in Matchmaking—A new Modus Lucrand i—Smallpox.
16. 16.CHAPTER X. — I become an object of contention, get two wives at once, and am kidnapped at last.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI. — My Marriage in my Eleventh Year makes me the Slave of my Wife, and procures for me Cudgellings from my Mother-in-law—A Ghost of Flesh and Blood.
18. 18.CHAPTER XII. — The Secrets of the Marriage State—Prince Radzivil, [24] or what is not all allowed in Poland?
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. — Endeavour after mental Culture amid ceaseless Struggles with Misery of every kind.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. — I study the Cabbalah, and become at last a Physician.
21. 21.CHAPTER XV. — A brief Exposition of the Jewish Religion, from its Origin down to the most recent Times.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. — Jewish Piety and Penances.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII. — Friendship and Enthusiasm.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. — The Life of a Family-Tutor.
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX. — Also on a Secret Society, and therefore a Long Chapter.
26. 26.CHAPTER XX. — Continuation of the Former, and also something about Religious Mysteries.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. — Journeys to Königsberg, Stettin and Berlin, for the purpose of extending my knowledge of men.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. — Deepest Stage of Misery, and Deliverance.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII. — Arrival in Berlin—Acquaintances—Mendelssohn—Desperate Study of Metaphysics—Doubts—Lectures on Locke and Adelung.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. — Mendelssohn—A chapter devoted to the memory of a worthy friend.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. — My aversion at first for belles lettres, and my subsequent conversion—Departure from Berlin—Sojourn in Hamburg—I drown myself in the same way as a bad actor shoots himself—An old fool of a woman falls in love with me, but her addresses are rejected.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI. — I return to Hamburg—A Lutheran Pastor pronounces me to be a scabby Sheep, and unworthy of Admission into the Christian Fold—I enter the Gymnasium, and frighten the Chief Rabbi out of his Wits.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII. — Third Journey to Berlin—Frustrated Plan of Hebrew Authorship—Journey to Breslau—Divorce.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII. — Fourth Journey to Berlin—Unfortunate Circumstances—Help—Study of Kant's Writings—Characteristic of my own Works.
35. 35.CONCLUDING CHAPTER. — FOOTNOTES: — Notes on some Books of Special Interest — PUBLISHED BY
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