COMPLETE Curiosities of Literature, Vol.2 by DIsraeli-ck

[Carolin]

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac D'Israeli (1766 - 1848).

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This is the second volume of the collected Curiosities of Literature by Isaac D'Israeli. ( Carolin)

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[Carolin]

volume two is all ready to go and looking for readers

[Kitty]

ah the second part is up now I can be DPL again, if that's ok.

Sonia

[Carolin]

welcome to volume two, sonia!

[Kitty]

Can I also reserve 25. Poetical Imitations and Similarities for myself please ? I know it's a very long article compared to what I usually record, but it's mostly poetry, so I think I'll be ok. I am particularly thrilled by the challenge of all these languages he is quoting in.

Sonia

[Carolin]

very good, thank you sonia!

[jasonb]

I have been waiting for this one, I went through the text last week to choose some nice reads.

I would like to claim the following:

2, 5, 7, 13, 21, 22, 23, 27, 43, 47, 51, 62, 64, 73, 79

Thanks!

[Carolin]

thank you jason

[queenk8]

I would like to claim section 69 - Of a History of Events which have not Happened

[Carolin]

Thank you kate!

[queenk8]

https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/literature2_69_disraeli_128kb.mp3
Time is 29:22
Very interesting essay, really. Good insight into how single events turn history.

[Kitty]

https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/literature2_69_disraeli_128kb.mp3
Time is 29:22
Very interesting essay, really. Good insight into how single events turn history.

Hello Kate

wonderful reading I extremely enjoyed listening to your voice. Also you are reading some of the more exciting passages (for example Alexander invading Italy) really with the needed enthusiasm in your voice, I was really hooked to the narrative. I hope to hear more from you

I only have one note to make, concerning the footnotes. Already in the first volume of Curiosities, we decided that we would include all the footnotes, as they are highly interesting as well and really add something of value to the text. (see point 6 in the first post) Could you please insert all the missing footnotes at the appropriate places ? Always with the standard mention "Footnote - [read note] - End of Footnote" The number of the footnote you need not include.

I wrote them all out for you, there are 3 footnotes in this text:

> at 15:13:

Footnote

Michelet, in his "Life of Luther," says the Spanish soldiers mocked and loaded him with insults, on the evening of his last examination before the Diet at Worms, on his leaving the town-hall to return to his hostelry: he ceased to employ arguments after this, and when next day the archbishop of Treves wished to renew them, he replied in the language of Scripture, "If this work be of men, it will come to nought, but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it."

End of Footnote

> at 17:45:

Footnote

The miracles of Clovis consisted of a shield, which was picked up after having fallen from the skies; the anointing oil, conveyed from heaven by a white dove in a phial, which, till the reign of Louis XVI. consecrated the kings of France; and the oriflamme, or standard with golden flames, long suspended over the tomb of St. Denis, which the French kings only raised over the tomb when their crown was in imminent peril. No future king of France can be anointed with the sainte ampoule, or oil brought down to earth by a white dove; in 1794 it was broken by some profane hand, and antiquaries have since agreed that it was only an ancient lachrymatory!

End of Footnote

> at 19:59:

Footnote

This fact was probably quite unknown to us, till it was given in the "Quarterly Review," vol. xxix. However, the same event was going on in Italy.

End of Footnote

Thanks !

Sonia

[Carolin]

thank you both!

kate, sorry about the footnotes. the text makes endnotes of those footnotes and that makes it quite difficult to read.

[queenk8]

Somehow I missed the instruction on the footnotes, though I did notice the notations when reading. Ah well, I'll find the right spots and will insert them this evening. Thank you!

[Carolin]

Thank you kate